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A Memo from the Central Office: The "Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services"
- Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 5, Number 2, June 1995
- pp. 133-139
- 10.1353/ken.0.0122
- Article
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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.