The Church As A Hospital: Healing According to the Church Fathers

Presentation given after the annual White Mass on October 15, 2017 for the Catholic Physicians Guild of Chicago, a local guild of the Catholic Medical Association. This presentation discusses the church fathers’ teachings, and the early church’s understanding, of SALVATION AS HEALING. . It presents a potential “antidote” to the current technologically driven and potentially depersonalizing trend in the practice of the medical arts.