Archbishop Raymond Burke today released a video and a press release concerning the selection of Sheryl Crow as the performer for an SSM Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital benefit concert. Sheryl Crow has publicly spoken in favor of Amendment 2, a Constitutional amendment which was recently passed allowing human cloning and embryonic stem cell research, and has been actively pro-choice in the past.
The benfit concert's organizers chose a performer (Ms. Crow) whose statements are most definitely against Church teaching, making it difficult for the faithful to recognize the Catholic identity of the hospital.
In my opinion, the hospital should know better than to select performers who stand against some of the Church's teachings, as they are, in fact, a Catholic institution. I see many places these days that are neglecting their Catholic identities in the name of money and prestige; why do so many feel it necessary to do these things? As a Catholic institution, the hospital should be wary of potentially scandalous issues such as the use of a performer whose views are so publicly against basic teachings of the Church.
There is a video of the Archbishop's statements available here, and an article explaining the issue more fully here.