By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist

A major pro-life group is calling on the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) to end their relationship with the Catholic Health Association (CHA) which continues to scandalize the faithful by endorsing ObamaCare and supporting abortion.

The American Life League is calling on the bishops to dissolve their ties with the group, citing the following reasons:

• CHA fully endorsed pro-abortion Obamacare, in direct opposition to the U.S. bishops

• CHA member Catholic Healthcare West gives millions of dollars to pro-abortion, pro-same-sex marriage organizations

• CHA’s recent Chairman of the Board was a “co-architect” in the creation of Healthy San Francisco, which covers birth control and abortion on demand

• CHA president, Sr. Carol Keehan, maintains a duplicitous position in claiming that local bishops have the authority to interpret the U.S. bishops’ ethical and religious directives (ERD), while maintaining that St. Joseph’s Hospital properly applied the ERDs in approving and performing an abortion in 2009.

“It’s clear that CHA is more interested in politics and money than maintaining Catholic teaching,” said Michael Hichborn, director of American Life League’s project, Defend the Faith.

Last month, in an online video report entitled, “Nun-Catholic Healthcare,” ALL revealed that CHA spends one fourth of its annual budget to pay its six highest paid employees, including Sr. Keehan’s $900,000 salary.

“When one considers that the mission of the USCCB is to ‘support the ministry of bishops with an emphasis on evangelization,’ maintaining a relationship with a group like CHA can only hinder that mission,” said Hichborn.

Watch ALL’s Nun-Catholic Healthcare: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOokPjKhFQE

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