Gallagher John A
Catholic Healthcare Partners, Cincinnati, USA.
Health Prog. 2006 Nov-Dec;87(6):18-23.
The Catholic health care ministry is about mission, and the role of organizational ethical reflection is to encourage people in the ministry to think about the institutional performance and practice of medicine within a ministry of the Catholic Church. By engaging a creative process that identifies the needs of people served by Catholic health care, institutions are able to mediate the healing and redeeming power of Jesus, thereby creating virtuous organizations. To depict the mission of Catholic health care as an extension of the healing ministry of Jesus is to evoke explicitly Catholic theological language, and such language is appropriate because Catholic health care is a ministry of the Catholic Church. The church itself is the embodiment of the healing and redeeming ministry of Jesus, and the institutional ministries it has created over time need to bear witness to this fundamental reason for their existence.
天主教医疗事工关乎使命，而组织伦理反思的作用在于鼓励从事该事工的人思考在天主教会事工范畴内医学的机构表现及实践。通过开展一个识别天主教医疗服务对象需求的创造性过程，各机构能够传递耶稣的治愈与救赎之力，从而创建有道德的组织。将天主教医疗事工描述为耶稣治愈事工的延伸，就是明确地援引天主教神学语言，而这种语言是恰当的，因为天主教医疗事工是天主教会的事工。教会本身就是耶稣治愈与救赎事工的体现，其长期创建的机构事工需要见证其存在的这一根本理由。
