A new book offers continuing critical reflection on the ministry of Catholic health care.
Health Care
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
How should art address addiction? These two films give us a clue.
Should filmmakers make the pain of addiction bearable to watch? In “Beautiful Boy” and “Ben is Back” they try.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Your Take
Should the conscience rights of medical practitioners be protected?
In their written responses, several readers invoked the Hippocratic Oath, from which the phrase “first do no harm” is derived.
Posted inOf Many Things, Politics & Society
Health care isn’t about statistics or abstractions. It’s about people.
The subject of every public policy question is a person, created and redeemed through love, writes Matt Malone, S.J.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
For prison inmates, health care comes slowly and unpredictably
The paramount concern of all prisons is safety. This is understandable, but it still seems unfair when security eclipses the health and well-being of inmates, writes John T. Booth.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The secret history of Catholic caregivers and the AIDS epidemic
Many stories of ordinary people responding to suffering in extraordinary fashion have not yet been captured in forms that will last.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
The Editors: Dental care is inseparable from overall health care
Dental care should be a priority in any plan to reduce inequities and improve the well-being of all citizens.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
How one midwife is helping indigenous mothers connect to their childbirth traditions
These traditional, indigenous birth practices should never have been erased in the first place.
Posted inFaith, Last Take
This doctor is helping those on the margins in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains
We are called to a life of humble service and radical reliance on God but not to perfection, writes Tom Catena.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
U.S. health care is in crisis. Here’s how the Catholic Church continues to reach the marginalized.
Income is perhaps the unifying indicator of health care in crisis across all the margins of America—a reliable predictor of poor health outcomes from inadequate treatment for common illnesses—leading to the final measure of all: substantially lower life expectancy.