(RNS) — “My religion is watching CNN,” a feisty elderly woman with cancer recently told a hospital chaplain who had knocked on the patient’s door to introduce himself. The patient, in a thin blue ...

While doctors treat illness and mend the body, hospital chaplains heal the spirit and soothe the mind. Physicians and chaplains have a symbiotic relationship within the hospital walls. Memorial ...

In my medical training, I once treated a young woman with metastatic breast cancer, who looked up at me every day with sparkling blue eyes and hope. Unfortunately, despite treatment, her cancer spread ...