The Irish Government has made the astonishing decision to build a new €300 million National Maternity Hospital, and give ownership of it to a religious order of the Catholic Church. The Vatican recently renewed its Charter for Healthcare Workers, which states that:
“Healthcare workers should be given a solid ethico-religious formation, which promotes in them an appreciation of human and Christian values and refines their moral conscience. There is need to develop in them an authentic faith and a true sense of morality, in a sincere search for a religious relationship with God, in whom all ideals of goodness and truth are based.”
Atheist Ireland reports on this development here.
The daily Dail prayer and the new National Maternity Hospital