Podcast for Inquiry Diatribe #2: Catholic Health Care “Ethics”

In this second episode of Leslie’s Diatribes, I sound off on the Health Ethics Guide, a publication of the Catholic Health Alliance of Canada. Employees in Catholic health care facilities in eight provinces are told to sign this code of ethics every year, and many do so without reading it. Leslie highlights some salient aspects of its contents, and encourages those who object to what it demands to refrain from agreeing to it.

The opinions expressed in this episode are mine, and do not represent the Centre for Inquiry Canada or any other organization.

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Podcast for Inquiry S02E14: Homophobia in Catholic Schools with Tonya Callaghan

Why do publicly funded Catholic schools exist in Ontario, Saskatchewan, and Alberta? Does the government or the Church actually run them? I speak with Dr. Tonya Callaghan, author of Homophobia in the Hallways, about systemic homophobia in Canadian Catholic schools. We discuss the long struggle to establish Gay-Straight Alliances, the oddly selective enforcement of Catholic doctrine, and the contradiction at the heart of professing compassion for all at the same time as demanding lifetime celibacy from those with same sex attraction. 

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