Why do Catholic hospitals have non-Catholic bibles?

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I was in a local Catholic hospital the other day waiting on some test results and as I wandered through the hospital and different waiting rooms to kill time, I noticed that every waiting had a bible in it. Great I thought ! Then I realized EVERY BIBLE was a Protestant bible!!! Not one that I saw was Catholic!

Has anybody else noticed this? Am I crazy for thinking that Catholic hospitals should only have Catholic bibles available for people to read? Why would we supply anything other than the fullness of the truth?

I also noticed that the bookstore in the hospital carried Protestant bibles, and also books by Protestant evangelists. My concern here is, as I skimmed through the books, they were teaching ‘faith alone’ and ‘bible alone’. Again, why would a Catholic hospital provide materials contrary to what it knows is true, just for the sake of being ‘inclusive’?

Does anybody else thing this is wrong? To be honest, I am so tired with “Catholic” institutions that seem to hedge at being fully Catholic.
 
I’m with you, though you’d have to ask the people at the Hospital as to why they only carry Protestant things. I’m sick of hearing about this “Catholic” college that’s having a gay pride day, or this “Catholic” hospital that’s administering Birth Control, and the subsequent rolling over of the bishops.

Just have to say, I first opened the thread because I thought the title said “Why do Catholic hospitals have non-Catholic babies?” and I was gonna say “well…sometimes non-Catholics give birth there…” 😛
 
My guess is that they were placed their by someone like the Gideons and not necessarily with the permission of the administration (although probably the Gideons would not do this without permission).

Second guess: Since Catholics don’t read the Bible anyway, they can’t tell the difference. (Joke)

As for the bookstore, they market what sells. It’s a business. Most of the hospital clientele are probably non-Catholic, I would guess. And a lot of that Evangelical personal-encouragement literature is non-sectarian.
 
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Does anybody else thing this is wrong? To be honest, I am so tired with “Catholic” institutions that seem to hedge at being fully Catholic.
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in the first place, the gift shop is probably a concession not run by the hospital but contracted to a third party. Somebody might suggest to them it would be good marketing to include bibles and gifts that appeal to Catholics.

in the second place, the patients are probably of all faiths, and it is nice a bible is part of the furnishings at all, but again, the hospital probably did not put them there, but some volunteer group, obviously protestant, donated them. The sad thing is that no Catholic organization thought to donate bibles.

I think the general principle at work here is that if Catholics want to evangelize, they ought to evangelize, and not sit around asking themselves why someone else is not doing the job.
 
Elzee said:
I was in a local Catholic hospital the other day waiting on some test results and as I wandered through the hospital and different waiting rooms to kill time, I noticed that every waiting had a bible in it. Great I thought ! Then I realized EVERY BIBLE was a Protestant bible!!! Not one that I saw was Catholic!

Has anybody else noticed this? Am I crazy for thinking that Catholic hospitals should only have Catholic bibles available for people to read? Why would we supply anything other than the fullness of the truth?

I also noticed that the bookstore in the hospital carried Protestant bibles, and also books by Protestant evangelists. My concern here is, as I skimmed through the books, they were teaching ‘faith alone’ and ‘bible alone’. Again, why would a Catholic hospital provide materials contrary to what it knows is true, just for the sake of being ‘inclusive’?

Does anybody else thing this is wrong? To be honest, I am so tired with “Catholic” institutions that seem to hedge at being fully Catholic.
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I agree, Maybe a letter to the Hosptial Director and a copy to the local Bishop is in order.
 
puzzleannie said:
in the first place, the gift shop is probably a concession not run by the hospital but contracted to a third party. Somebody might suggest to them it would be good marketing to include bibles and gifts that appeal to Catholics.
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I think the general principle at work here is that if Catholics want to evangelize, they ought to evangelize, and not sit around asking themselves why someone else is not doing the job.
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In this instance, the gift shop is run by the hospital (not contracted out). I checked.

As for evangelization, I hope I didn’t imply in my post that I’m sitting around and wondering why someone else isn’t doing it! That is definitely not my attitude!
In addition to what I do, I’m just wondering why a Catholic hospital isn’t promoting the Catholic faith! (I’d actually like to see a few Catechisms sitting around - they are on my donation list to the hospital for Christmas, by the way).
 
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Excellent idea! Thank you.
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Probably wouldn’t cost even a couple of hundred dollars, if that, to provide Catholic Bibles for all the public rooms in the hospital. This could be a personal gift from you or a little project for one of your service groups at the parish.

I could easily see our Rosary Society or the Women’s Spirituality Group doing this as a community service project.
 
Those Bibles are put there by the Gideons, the same group that puts them in hotel rooms and other public places.

I have worked in two Catholic hospitals at various times. While they were owned by Catholic healthcare corporations, they were run as any business might be run, with a mix of persons of various faiths filling leadership postitions. They are all about celebrating “diversity” to the point that the chapel at one of these hospitals is an “interfaith” chapel with assorted religious symbols on the walls, yet the sanctuary light burns on. Both hospitals had Gideon Bibles in the nightstands in patient rooms as well as in the waiting rooms, but they also had Catholic chaplains, so if someone wanted a Catholic Bible, rosary, or whatever, the nurse could ask the chaplain to bring them one.
 
CarrieH said:
Those Bibles are put there by the Gideons, the same group that puts them in hotel rooms and other public places.

I have worked in two Catholic hospitals at various times. While they were owned by Catholic healthcare corporations, they were run as any business might be run, with a mix of persons of various faiths filling leadership postitions. They are all about celebrating “diversity” to the point that the chapel at one of these hospitals is an “interfaith” chapel with assorted religious symbols on the walls, yet the sanctuary light burns on. Both hospitals had Gideon Bibles in the nightstands in patient rooms as well as in the waiting rooms, but they also had Catholic chaplains, so if someone wanted a Catholic Bible, rosary, or whatever, the nurse could ask the chaplain to bring them one.
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The Gideons will place Catholic Bibles if requested.
 
You have this turned all wrong. There is no such thing as a non-catholic bible. The KJV is the bible that is used common in Hospitals, because it is placed there by the Gideons International. It is a bible that can be used by any denomination of Christianity. Catholic, Non Denominational, Luthern, Methodist, Baptist, ETC… I own many different translations including KJV, NLT, NIV, New American Catholic, ESV, Johny Mac. It would be wrong for them to use a Bible that only the Catholic denomination of Christianity would be comfortable with, instead they can use a basic bible that all denominations of our faith can use, and btw the Bibles are the same they are just translated and worded a little different…same bible though. :bible1:
 
Are you saying that the tables of contents (lists of included books) will be identical if we compare them? And that all authors in the Catholic Bible are also included in the Protestant Bible?
 
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