Santos Andrew
CHI Health, Omaha, NE, United States.
Linacre Q. 2024 Aug;91(3):265-277. doi: 10.1177/00243639231197725. Epub 2023 Aug 30.
Inspired by the Divine Healer Jesus of Nazareth, Catholic healthcare has been a religious exercise since its inception. First practiced in the setting of the monastery in the earliest centuries AD and incarnated over two millennia by a variety of religious orders of consecrated men and women, Catholic healthcare today faces a crisis of identity. The role of the mission leader, envisioned by the religious brothers and sisters who founded various Catholic healthcare organizations, was a primary conduit to preserve the charisms of the founders and ensure the identity of Catholic healthcare as a religious exercise and ministry of the Church. With data from a recent survey of Catholic healthcare mission leaders, a number of critical challenges currently confront the role of mission leader and will potentially inhibit that role from fulfilling its original mandate. This article will present the findings of this survey, analyze the resulting challenges and present specific recommendations to strengthen the role of the mission leader and ensure Catholic healthcare will remain true to its ethos as a ministry of the Church and religious exercise.
受拿撒勒的神圣医治者耶稣的启发，天主教医疗保健自创立以来一直是一种宗教活动。公元最初几个世纪，它最初在修道院环境中开展，两千多年来由各种男女献身宗教团体践行，如今天主教医疗保健面临身份认同危机。创立各种天主教医疗保健组织的宗教兄弟姐妹所设想的使命领导者的角色，是保存创始人神恩并确保天主教医疗保健作为教会宗教活动和事工的身份的主要渠道。根据最近对天主教医疗保健使命领导者的一项调查数据，使命领导者的角色目前面临一些严峻挑战，这些挑战可能会阻碍该角色履行其最初使命。本文将呈现此次调查的结果，分析由此产生的挑战，并提出具体建议，以加强使命领导者的角色，并确保天主教医疗保健作为教会事工和宗教活动能始终忠于其精神特质。
