Dear OP - thanks for this post.
It reminds me of a similar set-to in Chicago (perhaps in the early 1980s) and as above in your linked article, the Cardinal prevailed, thanks be to God.
A community of Sisters announced their “plan” to become co-owners of a dual hospital site in Chicago where they already owned and ran one hosptial and a number of schools, including a college. The Cardinal reminded the Sisters at once that Catholic ethics MUST be integral to the new endeavor. The “Sisters” announced that they did not agree. The Cardinal announced that if they disobeyed then he would insure that the new facility and their original Catholic hospital would lose any standing as Catholic hospitals. Push came to shove over many months and at the very last minute, over a weekend prior to signing of papers for merger, the Sisters caved and dropped their plans for acquisition. It was a golden moment for the Catholics in Chicago.
God bless such Cardinals!
