POPE URGES AMERICAN BISHOPS TO BE FIRM WITH CATHOLIC HOSPITALS

VATICAN, June 29 (LSN) – In a recent meeting with bishops from the southern United States, Pope John Paul II urged his confreres to remind Catholic hospitals that abortion, sterilization, and euthanasia are mortal sins. “As bishops you must remind everyone involved hospital administrators and medical personnel— that any failure to comply with this prohibition is both a grievous sin and a source of scandal,” he said.