He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world knew him not.
He came to his own home, and his own people received him not.
But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God;
who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. (Jn 1:10-13)

One of the ironies of this whole situation is the ignorance of this hit piece. St. Vincent’s Midtown (the shuttered hospital that was the apparent springboard for the piece) actually closed in 2006, and not because the Church failed to support it. The Church poured millions and millions of dollars into that hospital, desperately trying to save it. St. Vincent’s Midtown was closed by the the New York State government, which ordered it to close as a result of the “Berger Commission”, a government commission that decided which hospitals would be allowed to continue in existence. The underlying cause was the economic stresses of the government-regulated market for hospitals, and the inadequacy of government reimbursements (through Medicaid and Medicare). This could have been discovered in about five minutes with Mr. Google.

So, if you want to point a finger at the responsible party, it was the government, which killed it through semi-socialized medicine. Don’t hold your breath for the left wing to admit that.

From what I understand, Cardinal O’Connor saw the Sisters’ primary mission as prayer for a culture of life. The world would say that is a waste of human effort. But perhaps the reason the culture of death is reeling is because of the prayer life of the Sisters sustaining and nourishing all of those, religious and non-religious, doing pro-life work.

And this nonsense about what we should think about when we walk by a failed Catholic institution. I can’t speak for anyone else, but I prayed to Mother Cabrini.