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Life & Faith: Field Hospital
“I see clearly that the thing the church needs
most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the
faithful; it needs nearness, proximity. I see the church as a field hospital
after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high
cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars! You have to heal his
wounds. Then we can talk about everything else. Heal the wounds, heal the
wounds … and you have to start from the ground up.”
– Pope Francis, America: The National
Catholic Review, September 2013 http://americamagazine.org/pope-interview
In 2013, Pope Francis famously likened the
church to a field hospital. Renowned theologian, William Cavanaugh, takes hold
of this metaphor and explores the meaning of it in his latest book, ‘Field
Hospital: The Church's Engagement with a Wounded World’.
“I think in some senses, what Pope Francis
is trying to do is to recapture the sense that you find in the earliest church
where things are very decentralized,” Cavanaugh explains. “What you had was not
very tightly institutionalized, but was more based on small communities of
people taking care of each other’s needs.”
“It’s a response to the kind of one-on-one,
flesh-to-flesh encounter with another person who suffers.”
In this episode of Life & Faith, we
talk about how the church can operate as a ‘field hospital’, and why it is
important for the church to do so.
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“I see clearly that the thing the church needs
most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the
faithful; it needs nearness, proximity. I see the church as a field hospital
after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high
cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars! You have to heal his
wounds. Then we can talk about everything else. Heal the wounds, heal the
wounds … and you have to start from the ground up.”
– Pope Francis, America: The National
Catholic Review, September 2013 http://americamagazine.org/pope-interview
In 2013, Pope Francis famously likened the
church to a field hospital. Renowned theologian, William Cavanaugh, takes hold
of this metaphor and explores the meaning of it in his latest book, ‘Field
Hospital: The Church's Engagement with a Wounded World’.
“I think in some senses, what Pope Francis
is trying to do is to recapture the sense that you find in the earliest church
where things are very decentralized,” Cavanaugh explains. “What you had was not
very tightly institutionalized, but was more based on small communities of
people taking care of each other’s needs.”
“It’s a response to the kind of one-on-one,
flesh-to-flesh encounter with another person who suffers.”
In this episode of Life & Faith, we
talk about how the church can operate as a ‘field hospital’, and why it is
important for the church to do so.
---
SUBSCRIBE to our podcast: http://bit.ly/lifeandfaithpodcast
JOIN US at this year’s Richard Johnson
Lecture with William Cavanaugh: http://www.richardjohnson.com.au
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