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Johannesburg, South Africa, Sep 22, 2016 / 06:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The unexplained deaths of three dozen mentally ill patients in a South African province show the need for action to help this vunerable population, the country’s bishops have said.“As a society, we should never forget that the lives of the mentally ill are precious before God. The lives of the mentally ill should therefore be considered to be more important than the dictates of fiscal efficiency and profit making,” the Justice and Peace Commission of the South African Catholic Bishops’ Conference said Sept. 19.“The families and the whole country need answers. We send our heartfelt condolences to all affected families.”Earlier this year, 36 psychiatric patients died within months of being removed from the Life Healthcare Esidimeni Centre to local NGOs and other facilities in Gauteng province.About 2,000 patients were transferred to over 120 other facilities after the contract was...
By Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has proven to be a masterof metaphor and, as fall approached, he increasingly turned to the field ofmedicine to make his points.Of course, probably his most famous medical metaphor is hisrepeated description of the church today as a "field hospital."In his 2013 interview with the Jesuit journal La CiviltaCattolica, he said: "I see the church as a field hospital after battle. Itis useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol andabout the level of his blood sugars! You have to heal his wounds."At his early morning Mass Sept. 22, he showed that whiletriage might be his specialty, he is familiar with a range of ailments.Speaking about people who have done evil and know it, PopeFrancis said, they live "with a constant itch, with hives that don't leavethem in peace."But his strongest words were about the sins of vanity andpride. "Vanity is like an osteoporosis of the soul: the bones seem goodfrom the outside, but o...
Some of the nation's largest for-profit colleges are suffering steep declines in enrollment amid growing competition, new regulation and government pressure that led to the collapse this month of one of the industry's biggest players, ITT Technical Institute....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The United States and Russia are taking their differences over the conflict in Syria to new heights, after trading ferocious allegations of duplicity and malfeasance at the United Nations Security Council....
LINDEN, N.J. (AP) -- A New Jersey police officer injured in a shootout with the man suspected of setting off bombs in the New York City area is at a school to thank students for their well wishes....
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Much of Puerto Rico was without electricity Thursday following a fire at a power plant that set off a broader outage across the island's aging utility grid, leaving most of the island's 3.5 million people without service....
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Lamenting a "lack of spirit" between whites and blacks, Donald Trump encouraged racial unity on Thursday even as he called for one of the nation's largest cities to adopt "stop and frisk" policing tactics that have been widely condemned as racial profiling by minority leaders....
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Charlotte's police chief said Thursday he plans to show video of an officer shooting a black man to the slain man's family, but the video won't be immediately released to the public....
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- The Latest on protests in Charlotte, North Carolina over the fatal police shooting of a black man. (all times local):...
(Vatican Radio) Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, called for ‘the enhancement of infection prevention and control, including good sanitation and hygiene both in health care settings and in communities’ in response to the danger of antimicrobial resistance.His comments came in an address to a high-level meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance at the UN headquarters in New York during the General Assembly.Cardinal Parolin warned against the potential causes of an increasing resistance to antibiotics and current medical methods.‘These causes include inappropriate use of antimicrobial medicines in human, animal, food, agriculture and aquaculture sectors; lack of access to health care services, including diagnostics and laboratory tests; and the contamination of soil, water and crops with antimicrobial residues.’He concluded his address by reminding world leaders of the need to leave no one behind in regard to universal health care access.&l...
