Rogue doctor’s rampage was not caused by Catholic medical ethics

NO doubt it will come as a tremendous relief to the Medical Missionaries of Mary to know that Senator Mary Henry thinks nuns are still “terribly useful”.

The religious orders involved in the provision of healthcare must feel under siege yet again in the wake of the Lourdes Hospital inquiry into the hysterectomies performed by Dr Michael Neary. But the nuns need not fear. They have a friend in Mary.

“They’re terribly useful from the point of pastoral care,” Henry told RTÉ’s This Week programme. “That is extraordinarily important to patients in hospital.”