The Limits of Authority

When bishops speak about health-care policy, Catholics should listen, but don't have to agree

Richard R. Gaillardetz June 30, 2010 - 4:56pm

The aftershocks of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ opposition to certain elements of recent health-care legislation are still being felt in the church months later. Religious communities that supported the legislation are being subjected to harsh and unwarranted punitive measures and the Catholic Health Association, whose...

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Topics: 
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Bishops
Domestic Affairs
Health Care
Theology
U.S. Catholicism
Vatican II

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About the Author

Richard R. Gaillardetz is the Murray/Bacik Professor of Catholic Studies at the University of Toledo. He is the author of The Church in the Making: Lumen Gentium, Christus Dominus, Orientalium Ecclesiarum (Paulist, 2006) and Ecclesiology for a Global Church: A People Called and Sent (Orbis, 2008).

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