Catholic Bishops Mandate Food, Water For Comatose Patients With Little Hope Of Recove

[The Pope]

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has directed Catholic hospitals to give food, water and medicine to comatose patients even when there is little hope of recovery, The San Francisco Chronicle reports. The bishops "issued the directive Nov. 17 to the more than 1,000 church-affiliated hospitals and nursing homes in the United States and to all Catholic doctors and nurses...

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