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**DF9sLGSU** · 09-11-2006, 01:49 AM

Dear Irene,

It is very sad. When you consider that in the Middle Ages (and later) hospitals were largely run by the religious orders, and there was then a real sense of looking after the whole person, it is a sad comment on the priorities of the modern world that hospital managers think that chaplains are superfluous to requirements.

We all need spiritual medicine, and to deprive the sick of it just because they are in hospital (and may need it more) borders on the cruel; still, one must be charitable and not attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity. It does, though, provide a real sign of the times we are living in here in the UK. I wonder what the practice is elsewhere?

In Christ,

JOhn

09-11-2006, 01:49 AM	#17
DF9sLGSU Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 438 Senior Member	Dear Irene, It is very sad. When you consider that in the Middle Ages (and later) hospitals were largely run by the religious orders, and there was then a real sense of looking after the whole person, it is a sad comment on the priorities of the modern world that hospital managers think that chaplains are superfluous to requirements. We all need spiritual medicine, and to deprive the sick of it just because they are in hospital (and may need it more) borders on the cruel; still, one must be charitable and not attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity. It does, though, provide a real sign of the times we are living in here in the UK. I wonder what the practice is elsewhere? In Christ, JOhn
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