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Miami man met his future kidney donor at Catholic retreat
- Jan 12, 2020
“If you ever need a kidney, let me know man, I got you,” John Fernandez told his friend he had met at a Catholic retreat.

By Priscilla Greear
Flu factor: Dioceses take steps to prevent virus from spreading
- Jan 11, 2020
The flu season is here and dioceses across the country are taking precautions to avoid spreading illness.

By Dennis Sadowski
Santa Fe archbishop issues safety directive for flu season
- Jan 9, 2020
The head of New Mexico’s largest Catholic diocese has issued directives aimed at protecting parishioners during flu season.

By Associated Press

Speakers address palliative care, pain management, treating ‘whole person’
- Sep 29, 2018
Catholic experts have called for palliative care to become standard around the world.

By Jo Ann Zuniga
Doctors ‘pleased’ with Ohio bishop’s response to leukemia treatment
- Jun 2, 2018
The Diocese of Youngstown said in a May 31 statement that Bishop George V. Murry, who is being treated for acute leukemia, has been released from the hospital and doctors are “pleased” with his body’s response to treatment.

By Rhina Guidos
Most important and costliest medicine? Love, pope tells patients
- Apr 11, 2017
Speaking to patients, their family members, and medical personnel from the Vatican-owned Bambino Gesu children’s hospital in Rome, Pope Francis warned of “the risk of forgetting the most important medicine only a family can give — caresses.”

By Carol Glatz

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