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Zina Campos, 34, didn't intend to heed the biblical injunction to be fruitful and multiply. It just kind of happened. She was raised a Roman Catholic, but gave little thought to the Good Book when she had her first child at 17. Before long, though, she joined a gang...
The hospital that serves her town of 40,000 apparently disagrees. Since October, not a single tubal ligation has been performed at the hospital--and Campos has been warned not to expect one. That is a dramatic change from last year, when more than 400 tubal ligations were performed at...
In keeping with Vatican policy, the directives proscribe abortion and a host of reproductive services, including birth control, morning-after pills and sterilization. "We can't say we're opposed to abortion as a profound human evil and then go out and build an abortion clinic," says Father Michael Place...
So just who are these caregivers? Catholic health services have historically reached out to underserved communities, aggressively promoting immunization programs and sometimes even building low-income housing, considered fundamental to good health. Ten percent of the nation's 4,800 hospitals (not including long-term and specialty-care centers) are...
Dogma's message is undeniably reverent. It probes, mocks, deconstructs, reconstructs and criticizes religion, but never faithit knows better than to mess with faith. Yes, the Catholic League might have some qualms with this movie, and so might film purists. Dogma isn't a spectacular example of cinema--far from...