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by bcadmin | Sep 5, 2022 | AVSI, Cardinal Mario Zenari, Hospitals, lead, Medical care, News, Pope Francis, Syria, Syrian Civil War, Vatican | 0 |
With Syria’s civil war well into its 12th year, the Vatican’s envoy to the country, Italian Cardinal Mario Zenari, has said high poverty rates and the lack of reconstruction is turning the population into “beggars” who are beginning to lose hope.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 26, 2022 | Anthony Fauci, Catholic News Service, Haiti, Hospitals, Medical care, News, Obituary, Poverty, Racism, Rwanda | 0 |
Dr. Paul Farmer, a Catholic physician who helped found a network of clinics serving the rural poor in Haiti and Rwanda, died in his sleep Feb. 21 on the grounds of a clinic he had founded in Butaro. He was 62.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 20, 2021 | Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki, Bulgaria, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, COVID-19, Hospitals, News, Orthodox Christians, Poland, Ukrainian Catholic Church, World Health Organization | 0 |
As governments across Europe reimpose curbs to counter a winter spike in the coronavirus, church leaders are urging citizens in less-protected eastern countries to cooperate with health campaigns.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 2, 2021 | Associated Press, Chaplains, Church in the US, Hospitals, News, North Carolina, religious liberty | 0 |
North Carolina hospitals would be required to let a pastor or other clergy member visit a patient even during a declared emergency like a pandemic under legislation that received final General Assembly approval on Wednesday.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 3, 2021 | Abortion, Associated Press, Church in the US, Conscientious objection, Hospitals, News, Vermont | 0 |
The U.S. Justice Department has dismissed a lawsuit against the University of Vermont Medical Center alleging it forced a nurse to participate in an abortion procedure she objected to on religious grounds.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 7, 2020 | Anointing of the Sick, Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Bishop Andrew Cozzens, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Chaplains, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Hospitals, News | 0 |
With local hospitals tightening restrictions for entering the rooms of patients with COVID-19, Auxiliary Bishop Andrew H. Cozzens of St. Paul and Minneapolis is addressing an important pastoral need — administering the sacrament of the anointing of the sick to those suffering from the illness who are in danger of dying.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 3, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Chaplains, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Diocese of Portland, Hospitals, Maine, News | 0 |
These days, the job description of hospital chaplain has changed due to the historically stringent safety restrictions now in place at all hospitals due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 3, 2020 | Anointing of the Sick, Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Chaplains, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Hospitals, Last Rites, News | 0 |
For more than a month, churches have been empty. No baptisms, no weddings, no confessions heard. Priests celebrate Masses alone, livestreaming them on the internet. But they still go out to people who are dying to administer the sacrament of the anointing of the sick, even to those who are suffering from the virus.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 3, 2020 | Associated Press, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Hospitals, Music, News | 0 |
Amy Love had to leave the Memphis hospital where she brings music to severely ill children — she and other support staff couldn’t take the risk of spreading COVID-19 to these frail patients. But she was determined: The music must not stop.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 27, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Chaplains, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Diocese of Portland, Hospitals, Maine, News | 0 |
Father Paul Marquis sits in his office at Mercy Hospital, waiting. He often notices how the usually busy corridors outside have grown quiet recently. Strict visitor regulations are in place, and staff schedules have been drastically altered to cover any possibility of a surge during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 22, 2020 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Chaplains, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Hospitals, News | 0 |
As the coronavirus claims tens of thousands of American lives, spiritual counselors are facing an already daunting job, rendered life-altering by the pandemic: Bringing faith and connection to the sick and bereaved and honoring the dead.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 15, 2020 | Avvenire, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, Church in Italy, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Eucharist, Hospitals, Italy, News | 0 |
Looking for a way to provide both spiritual and physical care on Easter, a group of Italian doctors received their bishop’s permission to distribute Communion to those infected by the coronavirus.
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