出版社：Catholic Health Association of the United States
摘要：Lately I have spent time reflecting on what it means for our health care ministry to be Catholic and what constitutes our Catholic identity. These reflections stem in part from recent conversations with two people who, with a certain amount of pride, introduced themselves to me as "recovering Catholics." Since I didn't ask them to explain, I am left musing on the possible meaning this label has for them. Did they intend to suggest that, like recovering alcoholics, they have moved away from practices they now regard as unhealthy for them? Do they regard it as progress that they have replaced the "oughts" and "ought nots" of Catholicism with the freedom to do what they want, when they want, with whom they want? Do they mean that they have disaffiliated with a church which did not meet their needs as a modern-day woman or man?
