Catholic Health Association on POLST

The Catholic Health Association of the United States (CHA) has devoted a major section in its latest issue of Health Care Ethics USA to POLST.  



CHA explains that its decision was prompted primarily by the publication of a “White Paper” in the May, 2013 issue of Linacre Quarterly.  But it seems I too played a small part:  "Unfortunately, the Linacre article together with opposition to POLST by two State Catholic Conferences have led to a blog on a well-known and widely-used bioethics website titled “Dangerous Catholic Attack on POLST."  While the author [Thaddeus Pope] does offer some qualifications and acknowledges that Catholic opposition to POLST is not monolithic, one could come away with the impression that, generally speaking, Catholicism opposes POLST. And it’s quite easy to jump from that to the conclusion that Catholics oppose efforts to achieve good end-of-life care."