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Fr. Ben Hawley, SJ considers the period during the Civil War when Holy Trinity's sanctuary was requisitioned by the Union Government as a hospital. "Imagine a platform of planks covering the pews. On the platform imagine cots, tables of medical equipment, perhaps oil lamps for lighting in the evening." Pope Francis likens the Church to a “field hospital” that receives and cares for gravely wounded patients. The pope writes, “It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if they have high cholesterol and about the level of their blood sugars. You have to heal their wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.”



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