I did not expect that the first time I administered the sacrament of baptism would be at 2 a.m. in a hospital. And I could not have guessed it to have happened at the intersection of my vocations as both a Jesuit and a nurse.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services may soon announce new regulations that would pose an existential threat to religious-based employers including Catholic hospitals.
In recent years, a new kind of hostility has developed toward any hint of faith in the practice of health care. But the idea that health care must be a religion-free zone is absolutely bizarre.
Sister Adela Orea finally got a clean water source for her hospital in Chiapas, Mexico. But should it take a tenacious sister and years of persistence for a health care facility to get safe water?
Dr. Paul Farmer believed the poorest of the poor in places like Haiti and Rwanda deserved high-quality medical care—and dedicated his life to delivering it.