Should filmmakers make the pain of addiction bearable to watch? In “Beautiful Boy” and “Ben is Back” they try.
Health Care
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 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.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
The opioid crisis demands a new solution. Churches are hoping to be part of it
The solution to the “current opioid crisis is one that involves the whole person.”
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis to health care workers: Conscientious objection must be respectful
When doctors, nurses and health care workers conscientiously object to a procedure to protect the life and dignity of their patients, they must do so respectfully, Pope Francis said.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
What our lonely culture can learn from L’Arche, the Last Supper and ‘love feasts’
The United States is suffering from an epidemic of despair. The Doctrine of the Twelve Apostles, one of the earliest descriptions of a Christian community, offers one way to cultivate love.