The Rev. Peggy Kelley, a Protestant chaplain, hugs nurse Jillian Katz, who is Orthodox Jewish, this month at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times) Before entering ...

(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 ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Offering comforting words and prayers during the pandemic as a hospital chaplain is an experience unlike any other. “Holy and gracious God we take this time to affirm the love that ...

When he left for the last deployment of his 30-year military career in 2018, Robert Kinnune remembers staff being grateful for his work as the chaplain for Eastern State Hospital. His record was ...

3 ROB ALEXANDRA THE PANDEMIC COULD TESTHE T FAITH OF EVEN THE MOST FAITHFUL BUT ONE HOSPITAL CHAPLAIN TELLS ME SEEINGHE T DEDICATION OF HIS COLLEAGUES HAS DONE NOTHING BUT GIVE HIM STRENGTH. CHAPLAINS ...

J.S. Park helps patients and their families cope with death every day as a hospital chaplain. He explains what to expect as a ...

Inside hospital rooms across America, where the sick are alone without family to comfort them, the grim task of offering solace falls to overworked and emotionally drained hospital chaplains who are ...

(CNN) — Joon Park still thinks about his patients long after they’re gone. He remembers the young man who lived on the street and had aspired to be a musician before cancer took him. On his deathbed, ...