Haiti, so much on our minds today because of its calamitous earthquake, is where the idea was formed. It was while visiting there in 1928 that Dr. Paluel Flagg, an anesthesiologist from St. Vincent’s Hospital in New York, was so moved by the plight of…
Author: Dana Robinson
Staying Put
Readers will know that members of most religious orders typically take the three vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. Some of these religious communities embrace additional vows, i.e. for the Trappists that of silence, for the Jesuits that of loyalty to the Pope. For the…
Holy Family Hospital
Two millennia ago, Mary and Joseph advanced the Kingdom as they made their arduous journey to Bethlehem in response to an imperial edict mandating a census. There, in that tiny hamlet, finding no available accommodations, they were obliged to seek shelter in a makeshift stable…