A memo from the central office: the "Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services".
In 1994, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops revised the "Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services." A goal of the Directives is to maintain the moral integrity of Catholic health care institutions and to address controversies in bioethics and health care. The Directives represent a shift to an exclusively principle-based approach to moral reason. This shift threatens to undermine the very tradition that the bishops seek to protect.
Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, USA.
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D026688:Bioethical Issues; D032764:Casuistry; D002410:Catholicism; D026689:Ethical Analysis; D028663:Ethical Theory; D026822:Ethicists; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D016519:Hospitals, Religious / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D009014:Morals; D015279:Organizational Culture; D028662:Principle-Based Ethics; D014481:United States