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By Maureen Pratt • Catholic News Service • Posted May 5, 2021
Among the many heroes that have emerged from hospitals and other care facilities during the pandemic, Catholic hospital chaplains are especially inspirational. Whether virtually or in person, they have persevered to bring spiritual care and sacramental support to critically ill and dying COVID-19 patients while also providing a pastoral presence to families and health care workers at the heart of the crisis.
In the spring of 2020, when New York City hospitals were beginning to fill with critically ill patients, Paulist Father Paul Rospond could look through the window of his room in the rectory at St. Paul the Apostle Church and see the ambulances lined up in front of the emergency room at Mount Sinai West Hospital but he couldn’t go inside and minister.