{"id":82075,"date":"2026-04-10T08:08:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T12:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82075"},"modified":"2026-04-10T08:08:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T12:08:04","slug":"nuns-who-care-for-dying-poor-face-jail-time-under-new-york-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/nuns-who-care-for-dying-poor-face-jail-time-under-new-york-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuns Who Care For Dying Poor Face Jail Time Under New York Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Aleteia<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.en.aleteia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/shutterstock_2445188605.jpg?resize=620,350&amp;q=75\" width=\"280\" height=\"158\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For 125 years, the\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/hawthorne-dominicans.org\/about-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dominican Sisters<\/a>\u00a0in Hawthorne, New York, have provided comfort and nursing care for under-resourced patients suffering from incurable cancer. But a new law has the sisters in fear of fines, court orders, potential loss of licensing, and jail time, forcing them to file a lawsuit on April 6, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, the New York State Legislature passed\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nysenate.gov\/legislation\/bills\/2023\/S1783\/amendment\/A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill S1783A<\/a>, the \u201cLesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender, and People Living with HIV Long-Term Care Facility Residents&#8217; Bill of Rights.\u201d The Senate website says this law \u201cprohibits a long-term care facility or facility staff from discriminating against any resident on the basis of such resident&#8217;s actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or HIV status.\u201d But for the sisters, the law discriminates against their rights to religious freedom.\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/catholicbenefitsassociation.org\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Catholic Benefits Association<\/a>\u00a0(CBA), which advocates for Catholic employers\u2019 rights to provide a workplace and benefits in line with their religious beliefs, is supporting the nuns in the case.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1775808484\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Nuns Who Care For Dying Poor Face Jail Time Under New York Law\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Aleteia: For 125 years, the\u00a0Dominican Sisters\u00a0in Hawthorne, New York, have provided comfort and nursing care for under-resourced patients suffering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82076,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82075\/revisions\/82076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}