In response to nursing shortages growing more critical every year in Maryland, the leaders of Notre Dame of Maryland University in Baltimore and Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg have signed a partnership to enable graduates of Mount St. Mary’s to earn their nursing degrees.
Health Care
Limited access to medication is ‘hidden euthanasia,’ pope says
The pope met at the Vatican April 13 with members of the Religious Association of Social and Health Institutes, which represents more than 250 hospitals, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers and other health care centers operated by religious institutes throughout Italy.
Military archdiocese: Walter Reed pastoral care contract ‘turns ministry on its head’
The end of a long-running Catholic pastoral care contract at a leading U.S. military medical center highlights broader concerns about the federal contracting process for such services, according to the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services and several lawmakers.
Walter Reed decision to cancel Catholic pastoral contract ahead of Holy Week ‘incomprehensible,’ says US military archbishop
Hours before Holy Week began, a U.S. major military medical center ended a long-standing contract to provide Catholic pastoral care to veterans and service members, violating their religious freedom, according to Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for Military Services.
Assisted suicide, euthanasia an ‘incredibly slippery slope’ in the West, says CUA panel
The reality of legalized euthanasia often doesn’t correspond to hypothetical debates over the practice, according to a panel of experts convened at The Catholic University of America.
Medically changing person’s sex characteristics to those of opposite sex ‘not morally justified,’ say bishops
Surgical, chemical or other interventions that aim “to exchange” a person’s “sex characteristics” for those of the opposite sex “are not morally justified,” said the U.S. bishops’ doctrine committee in a statement released March 20.
Life and death: AEDs save lives on sports fields
Peter Laake, a 17-year-old junior at Loyola Blakefield, thanks God he’s alive. He’s using his near-death experience to raise awareness of the importance of having AEDs on athletic fields.
Heart to Beat initiative takes proactive approach to sports safety
Scott Kuhlman is a 2010 Loyola Blakefield graduate and the CEO of Heart To Beat, an Owings Mills-based safety training and consulting firm that helps organizations prepare and protect their student-athletes.
Reach out to give, receive help, pope tells parents of sick kids
The smiles, curiosity and boldness of several children with rare diseases who did not know about protocol at papal audiences and simply went up to Pope Francis and reached out for rosaries gave the grownups present a lesson, the pope said.
People in chronic pain need someone to listen, acknowledge them, pope says
Caring for the sick and suffering includes drawing attention to those who suffer in silence, struggling to find someone who will acknowledge they are in pain and try to help, Pope Francis said.
U.S. bishops’ religious liberty chairman: Proposed new rules on contraceptive mandate ‘disheartening’
The U.S. bishops’ religious liberty chairman called it “disheartening” that proposed new rules on the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate eliminate “protections for moral convictions” of employers who object to being forced to cover contraceptives in their employee health plans.
Merciful like the Father
Even a glance at the Gospel shows us that healing the sick – physically and spiritually – was at the heart of Jesus’ earthly ministry.