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Vatican City, Nov 13, 2012 \/ 01:02 pm (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- The Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers announced Nov. 13 that its upcoming international conference will discuss how health facilities can maintain a Catholic identity in secular societies.<\/p>\n

\tThe conference will be \u201cdevoted to the study of all aspects of hospitals as privileged spaces, to fulfill both individually and collectively the baptismal mandate\u201d to minister to the sick in imitation of the Good Samaritan, the council\u2019s president Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski said.<\/p>\n

\tThe council\u2019s 27th international conference will take place Nov. 15 to 17 and will address the theme, \u201cThe hospital, a place of evangelization, human and spiritual mission.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe gathering will bring together churchmen as well as health care professionals. Up for discussion will be several key issues: respect for life from conception to its natural end, compassionate care with full respect for the sick person\u2019s identity, and palliative care, which focuses on relieving and preventing the suffering of patients.<\/p>\n

\tRepresentatives from the European Congress of Catholic Doctors as well as Italian Minister of Health Renato Balduzzi will participate. They will address such concerns as maintaining hospitals\u2019 Catholic identity in the secularized Western world, and promoting more effective health care in developing countries, where easily preventable diseases such as malaria continue to claim untold lives.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cHealth care workers who are inspired by the faith and Christian morality must be the promoters and pioneers of ethical training to accompany their professional preparation,\u201d noted the council\u2019s secretary, Archbishop Jean-Marie Mupendawatu.<\/p>\n

\tArchbishop Mupendawatu emphasized that the focus of health care should be on the patient as a person, who \u201creveals the face of God\u201d in his suffering. He ended his remarks by quoting St. Therese of Lisieux, who found joy in suffering by offering up her pain to God.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cI have come to the point of suffering no more, because all suffering endured for God has become sweetness,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

\tThe meeting will begin with a Mass in St. Peter\u2019s Basilica presided over by the Vatican\u2019s secretary of state,\u00a0 Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone.<\/p>\n

\tThe conference will conclude with a Nov. 17 Mass in St. Peter\u2019s and an address by Pope Benedict XVI.<\/p>\n

\tThe council was established by Blessed Pope John Paul II to provide a forum to discuss Catholic-related health care issues. Some 120,000 Catholic health care facilities operate worldwide, putting into practice Christ\u2019s command in St. Matthew\u2019s gospel to \u201cGo, preach, and heal the sick.\u201d<\/p>\n

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