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.
Health Care
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.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Catholic officials pleased with new conscience protection rule
The announcement of a new conscience protection rule May 2 protecting health care workers who object to abortion procedures on religious grounds was welcome news to U.S. Catholic bishops and the president of the Catholic Health Association.
Posted inExplainer, Politics & Society
Explainer: Measles, vaccines, religious exemptions
Every parent wants happy and healthy children, but unless we literally live on a deserted island, we are “a part of the main” and owe an obligation to our neighbors to protect them as well as ourselves.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
What Islam taught me about dying well
Accompaniment, not technology, might be the most caring thing we can offer those facing death.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
A better choice than late-term abortion: perinatal hospice care
For the rare cases in which mothers consider late-term abortions to spare infants from pain, perinatal hospice programs offer a compassionate and life-affirming alternative.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
L.A. County Jail begins a mental health renovation
County supervisors approved $2.2 billion in June 2018 to build a replacement with the notable amendment that the new facility would be designed with a focus on mental health and rehabilitation.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Living and loving with cystic fibrosis in ‘Five Feet Apart’
For people living with this chronic illness seeing aspects of their daily life on screen can be startling and affirming.