"Com-Passion": Journeying to Joy by "Suffering-with" Your Patients. (May 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ashour, Monica
• Is Part Of: Linacre quarterly. Volume 89:Number 2(2022)
• Page Start: 218
• Page End: 223
• Publication Date: 2022-05
• Subjects: Catholic identity in health care -- Christology -- Pastoral care of the sick and dying -- Spirituality for physicians -- spirituality -- spiritual theology -- St. John Paul II -- Theological anthropology -- Theology of Death -- Theology of the Body; Medical ethics -- Periodicals; Medicine -- Societies, etc -- Periodicals; 174.2
• DOI: 10.1177/00243639221081983
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0024-3639

Abstract

Catholic medical professionals whose sacred mission of journeying with patients "with suffering" will be challenged regarding the truth of soteriology (how we are saved) with their work with patients. Using St. John Paul's Theology of the Body and "On the Christian Meaning of Human Suffering, " this essay gives a profound understanding of the coredemption in which healthcare professionals can participate.