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The chirograph of Francis institutes a foundation dedicated to the economic assistance of the health structures of the Church. It will be led by APSA President Bishop Nunzio Galantino. Vatican News In a chirograph published today, Pope Francis created the Foundation for Catholic Health Care, an organization that “will offer economic support to the health structures of the Church, in order to preserve the charism of the founders, their inclusion in the network of analogous and deserving structures of the Church and therefore their exclusively beneficial purpose according to the prescriptions of social doctrine” This decision by the Pope is a reaction to the crisis affecting various health structures managed by religious orders, which often find it impossible to continue to maintain them and are forced to put them up for sale. This new Vatican Foundation, Francis specifies, is an “Entity linked to the Holy See” so that it can “function under its sovereign authority and as an instrumental...

Receiving an audience of some fifty members of the Rome Bio-Medical Campus Foundation in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace on Monday, October 18, Pope Francis advocated Catholic medicine placing human dignity at its center, deploring the attitude of some health professionals who seek profit above all else. “I am happy to meet you in person on the very day on which we celebrate Saint Luke, whom the apostle Paul calls “the dear doctor” (Col 4, 14)”. In front of the members of the Roman foundation, Pope Francis praised the work in the field in health, "especially when the emphasis is placed not only on assistance", but also "on research to provide patients with the therapies the most suitable, and above all if it is done with love for the person".  "The sick comes before the disease" Putting the sick person before the disease is essential in all areas of medicine, the Sovereign Pontiff well recalled, considering this aspect “fundamental” for a “ rea...

Adelaide Patrignani - Vatican City In this year 2022, the World Day of the Sick will mark an anniversary: ​​it will be the thirtieth edition, since its institution by Saint John Paul II. Pope Francis salutes   “the steps forward”  taken by the local Churches in the field of health for three decades, while recognizing  “a long road”  still to be traveled, especially in the face of poverty and in the field of pastoral accompaniment. Continuing the work of Christ In his  message  , dated last December 10 and made public on January 4, the Holy Father indicates a verse of Saint Luke to guide this Day:  “Be merciful, as your Father is merciful”  (Lk 6, 36). Mercy, a strong theme of the current pontificate,  "is, par excellence, the name of God",  recalls the Pope, evoking both  "the dimension of fatherhood and that of motherhood".  God  "is both strength and tenderness",  and the supreme witness of this merciful love i...