November 2009
16 posts
Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We should like to skip the intermediate stages. We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new. Yet it is the law of all progress that is made by passing through some stages of instability and that may take a very long time.
And so I think it is...
2009 National Business Ethics Survey →
For Real: Organizational ethics improves during recessions.
(via) Ethics Resource Center
The Decline: The Geography of a Recession →
A time-lapse animation of the rise of unemployment in the United States (January 2007 - September 2009).
Clearly, this is a huge concern for the ministry.
(via) Daring Fireball
“There is no billing code for compassion.”
– Dr. Amy Ship, winner of the Compassionate Caregiver Award from the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center
(via) Running a hospital
“…the revised Directive does not offer new teaching but rather reflects...”
– Read on: CHA Statement: Comment Regarding Revision to Directive 58 of the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services
USCCB 2009 Fall Conference →
According to the agenda, the proposed revision of Part Five of the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services will be addressed this afternoon.
The CNS is live-blogging the event.
WatchA Widow Paints A Mural To Protest Health Care : NPR
The mural tells the story of a horrible day back in the spring. Fred was being transferred to a new hospital and Regina needed records of Fred’s many tests and treatments from the old hospital.
“I had gone down to medical records,” Holliday says, “and they said, ‘That’ll be 73 cents a page and a 21-day...
Journey Litany
In preparation for our health system’s annual conference, I prepared this litany for one of our reflections. The theme of the conference was change. Through this prayer, I tried to connect stories of change and journies from salvation history to the work we seek to do every day.
I offer it here in hopes that you might find it helpful in your work.
Joseph & Mary traveled to Bethlehem to...
“When we submit to the discipline of caring for the most frail and vulnerable, we...”
– William Thomas, MD, President, Eden Alternative
