“This gesture by people who are used to living with pain and suffering, and yet manage to relieve it and help, tells us that there is still a lot of greatness among us,” the pope said.
Health Care
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Voting Catholic: Is health care a sacred human right?
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the American health care system. How can Catholics vote to ensure that no one is denied access to care?
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Pope Francis: Coronavirus vaccine must be for everyone, not just the wealthy
Pope Francis proposed “to globalize treatment” and said all people should be given access to life-saving medicine.
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How Catholic chaplains are serving the Latino community during Covid-19
Everyone dies, but not all cultures observe death in the same way.
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Pope Francis: Lack of money shouldn’t impede health care
Pope Francis said that when it comes to treating patients, especially women, doctors and medical institutions should place their care above financial gain.
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The Catholic Health Association on who should get a Covid-19 vaccine (and when)
Sister Mary Haddad on coronavirus vaccine: “It is our belief that all people regardless of immigration status—whether they be refugees or asylum seekers held in immigration centers—must be included in each priority population group.”
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U.S. bishops praise NIH board’s votes not to fund most research proposals using fetal tissue
The bishops applaud the Trump administration “for moving NIH in a direction that shows greater consideration for medical ethics in research, and greater respect for innocent human life.”
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Review: A meditation on dementia and loss
Drawing on her years as a Baptist minister and nursing home chaplain, Lynn Casteel Harper asks the reader to reconsider much of the stigma—and terminology—that we place on people diagnosed with dementia.
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Pope Francis baptizes conjoined twins successfully separated at Vatican hospital
Their heads encased in bandages covering the wounds where they had been conjoined, 2-year-old twins named Ervina and Prefina were baptized by Pope Francis in the chapel of his residence.
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Who goes first? The ethics of distributing a Covid-19 vaccine.
Imagine the potential for chaos once a Covid-19 vaccine becomes available. We need to decide now who should get the vaccine and when.