Special sensitivity needed in care for sick children
November 17, 2008
Speaking on November 15 to participants in a conference on pastoral care for sick children, Pope Benedict XVI said that medical care should always promote "the authentic good of the child, considering his or her dignity as a human being with full rights." In practice, the Pope said, that principle means that health-care personnel must recognize the special emotional and spiritual ramifications of illness for children. "The Church does not forget these, the smallest of her children," he said.
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