THREE COURAGEOUS NURSES Walk Away From Jobs They Love After Catholic Hospital Denies Their Religious Exemptions

ROCHESTER, MI: Three of Ascension-Providence Rochester Hospital’s best nurses walked away from their beloved jobs on Friday, after the Catholic, faith-based hospital network refused to consider their pleas for religious exemptions. Yes, you read that correctly; a CATHOLIC FAITH-BASED hospital denied CHRISTIAN nurses with religious objecions to the COIVD jab the right to have a religious exemption to the COVID jab.

From the “faith-based” Ascension website:
Ascension is a faith-based healthcare organization dedicated to transformation through innovation across the continuum of care. As one of the leading non-profit and Catholic health systems in the U.S., Ascension is committed to delivering compassionate, personalized care to all, with special attention to persons living in poverty and those most vulnerable.

The nurses, with decades of combined, high-quality service, have “voluntarily” resigned after their applications for religious exmptions from the COVID vaccine were denied.

As part of their request to receive a religious exemption from the COVID jab, the nurses had to check a box that indicated they were “voluntarily” resigning if their exemption was denied. The hospital claims it’s a “voluntary resignation” for non-compliance with hospital policy, but the nurses are technically suspended without pay until the end of the suspension period, which is Jan. 4. If they don’t comply by the Jan. 4 deadline, they are considered “voluntarily” resigned. Ascension states that the voluntary resignation allows them to cash out their PTO at the end of the suspension period and makes them eligible to be rehired by ascension in the future (per Ascensions HR rules), but in reality, there is nothing voluntary about it.

A fully-vaccinated manager at the faith-based hospital shared their thoughts on watching three highly-qualified nurses who bravely cared for patients through the COVID pandemic, as they walked away from the jobs they love:
The three nurses leave behind a legacy of faith, love, and compassion. Their supervising nurse shared her heartbreaking testimony about their firing on social media:
Today was the saddest day of my 33-year nursing career. Religious exemptions were denied, and these wonderful ladies were 3 of the many healthcare workers who followed their conscience and will be losing jobs they love.

I have been blessed to work alongside these ladies for many years and have learned so much from them – they are my heroes. Not because they fearlessly stepped up to the plate for their hospital and patients during the initial COVID crisis (after all, they were ‘just doing their job’ and they were employed), but because they are willing to give up their livelihoods to be true to themselves.
Regardless of opinion regarding vaccines, this is Courage.

An example of professional commitment, these ladies trained their own replacements with love and patience and left their department in spotless condition. There was no bitterness, just lots of sadness and tears with patients and colleagues who have all comprised the family created by these special people.

Like many healthcare workers who choose not to vaccinate, their reasons and stories are diverse. However, what they share is a faith in God that is unshakeable. That faith permeated our department and taught me so much. Lesa reminded me that the most important job we have in our lives is to help our children and the people we love get to Heaven.

I thank them for teaching me something new about God and the Bible every day, and for trying to help me get perhaps a little closer. The Bible tells us that good things come from bad, and I know God has this – I trust He will put us all exactly where we are meant to be. He always does.

I pray for all workers being displaced by these mandates as well as their colleagues who are left behind – And I will continue to pray for our country that nobody will ever be forced to make these choices again.

God bless these brave women who will be looking for new jobs and possibly entirely new careers. Their story is not unique. This type of religious persecution is happening across America under the guise of “protecting the community” from a virus, that accoridng to CDC data, shows that Americans, regardless of age group, are far more likely to die of something other than COVID-19. Even among those in the most heavily impacted age group (85 and older), only 13.3 percent of all deaths since February 2020 were due to COVID-19.


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I thought Christians didn't consider Catholics, Christians.

I would have never signed off on that paper.
But that's what Christians were forced to do.
And being Christians, they turned the other cheek.

HawkTheSlayer wrote:I thought Christians didn't consider Catholics,  Christians.

I would have never signed off on that paper.
But that's what Christians were forced to do.
And being Christians,  they turned the other cheek.  

I consider Catholics to be Christians. Many, many, many of my friends over the years are Catholic...

Lots of fundamentalists don't.

HawkTheSlayer wrote:Lots of fundamentalists don't.

I don't believe my mother did, but she had enough sense not to say it around me...

Damn Catholics!
Always drinking at weddings and funerals!

HawkTheSlayer wrote:Damn Catholics!
Always drinking at weddings and funerals!

I remember MANY years ago when I went to church with a Catholic friend, I'd never been to a Catholic church before and told her to let me know anything necessary so I didn't embarrass her or myself. As we were walking down the aisle, heading for a pew, there was a sound from the other side of the church and I turned my head to see what it was. Just then, Kathy knelt at the end of the pew, and I went right over the top of her. We still crack up over that one...

Elizabeth Theus wrote:

HawkTheSlayer wrote:Damn Catholics!
Always drinking at weddings and funerals!

I remember MANY years ago when I went to church with a Catholic friend, I'd never been to a Catholic church before and told her to let me know anything necessary so I didn't embarrass her or myself.  As we were walking down the aisle, heading for a pew, there was a sound from the other side of the church and I turned my head to see what it was.  Just then, Kathy knelt at the end of the pew, and I went right over the top of her.  We still crack up over that one...

I bet the men got a thrill when your feet were up in the air!

HawkTheSlayer wrote:Lots of fundamentalists don't.

There are all kinds of strange ideas out there...and people promoting them. My mechanic is one of them...we've gotten into a few religious discussions. I'm frankly shocked, at how the Book of Revelations is being lived, now.

But he rejects Catholics as not-Christian. I never really heard that idea promoted....I grew up as a Missouri Synod Lutheran. For those who don't know, LCMS is one of the conservative Lutheran sects. The most-conservative is the Wisconsin Synod, but they're dying out, of a failure to keep young people within. Is it the young people's fault, that they reject the Church, or the church's fault, that they don't try to be relevant? I don't know.

But, anyway. Cleveland, where I grew up, is heavily Catholic. Next door neighbors were Catholic, right down to fish on Friday and five kids. The hot Celtic girls all went to St. Joseph's Academy...despite the name, it was all girls. Interestingly, there was another all-girls' Catholic school, not far away...Magnificat. St. Joe's was in Cleveland's West Park neighborhood, heavily Irish. Magnificat was in Rocky River, a modern suburb, and no particular ethnicity. The Magnificat girls were just plain and dumpy. And they got on their school buses and went straight home. Whereas the St. Joe's girls, walked six blocks to Kamm's Corners, waiting for city buses in all four directions...and enjoying the male attention. Those girls would roll the waistband of their uniform skirts, and flash leg to the boys from West Tech high school, driving by in their beaters...and sometimes cadging a ride.

The St. Joe's girls were boy-crazy. As a 24-year-old cabdriver, working that area...I actually got propositioned by one. She had two friends with her...it was probably a dare.

To her it was a dare. To me it was a case of, 16-gets-you-20. I declined, with heavy heart...

But, I never had that anti-Catholic attitude. Honestly, only recently have I seen it, anywhere.

they are anti-vaxxers who were willing to endanger themselves, their co-workers AND their patients.

They are not courageous, at best they are 'misguided.'

I would fire them immediately.