Letter Campaign
These letters were received from U.S. Catholic Bishops, Catholic hospitals, and Catholic officials in response to a request to stop non-therapeutic circumcisions at U.S. Catholic hospitals. The vast majority of Bishops and Catholic hospitals failed to respond to the letters sent to them. The untold story for any discerning reader is the way the Vatican said to contact the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, a Bishop said to contact the Catholic Health Association, the Catholic Health Association said they don’t decide such matters, the National Review Board said to contact the Bishops or the Office of Child and Youth Protection, the Office of Child and Youth Protection said this doesn’t fall under their mandate, and so on and so on. Catholic hospitals refer this to their Ethics Committees, and then no one does anything to correct the situation.
Bishops’ Letters
1 The Vatican- Monsignor Pedro Lopez Quintana- 4/6/02
2 Bishop of Tyler, Texas- Alvaro Corrada, S.J.- 3/31/04
3 Bishop of Rochester, New York- Matthew H. Clark- 2/4/04
4 Bishop of Eparchy of St. Maron in Brooklyn- Gregory John Mansour- 2/23/04
5 Bishop of Yakima, Washington- Carlos A. Sevilla, S.J.- 3/2/04
6 Bishop of Yakima, Washington- Carlos A. Sevilla, S.J.- 3/15/04
7 Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago, Illinois- Francis J. Kane- 2/25/04
8 Archbishop of New York- John Cardinal O’Connor- 9/3/98
9 St. Petersburg, Florida- Monsignor Frank M. Mouch- 4/1/02
10 Arlington, Virginia- Rev. Mark S. Mealey, O.S.F.S.- 3/18/04
11 San Bernardino, California- Sister Mary Frances Coleman, RSM- 3/20/02
12 Bishop of Rockville Centre- John R. McGann, D.D.- 2/19/98
13 Bishop of Charleston, South Carolina- Robert J. Baker- 3/28/02
14 San Francisco, California- Rev. Monsignor Thomas S. Merson- 3/20/02
15 San Francisco, California- Rev. Monsignor Thomas S. Merson- 2/20/04
16 Baltimore, Maryland- Deacon Rodrigue Mortel, M.D.- 6/4/02
Catholic Officials’ Letters
17 National Review Board for the Protection of Children and Young People-
Justice Anne M. Burke- 3/29/04
18 National Review Board for the Protection of Children and Young People-
Robert S. Bennett- 3/23/04
19 Leon E. Panetta- 4/6/04
20 Office of Child and Youth Protection- United States Conference of
Catholic Bishops- Kathleen McChesney, Executive Director- 4/12/04
21 The Catholic Health Association of the United States- Rev. Michael D.
Place, S.T.D., President and CEO, 6/26/02
22 The Catholic Health Association of the United States- Rev. Michael D.
Place, S.T.C., President and CEO- 2/7/03
23 Sisters of Mercy Health System- St. Louis, Missouri- Sister Mary Roch
Rocklage, RSM
Catholic Hospitals’ Letters
24 Saint Francis Hospital and Health Centers- Poughkeepsie, New York-6/26/02
25 Lourdes Hospital- Binghamton, New York- John D. O’Neil, President/CEO-5/16/02
26 Queen of the Valley Hospital- Napa, California- Rhonda Fitzgerald, RN-6/24/02
27 St. Anthony North Hospital- Westminster, Colorado- Peggy Gustafson,
Administrator- 7/24/02
28 St. Mary’s Medical Center- Duluth, Minnesota- Sister Verda Clare
Eichner- 6/20/02
29 Mercy Medical Center- Durango, Colorado- John A.K. Boyd, MD- 7/2/02
30 Sacred Heart Medical Center- Eugene, Oregon- Jill Hoggard Green, RN, PhD- 8/8/02