Graduate studies at CSTM offer a unique opportunity to engage in rigorous theological studies for ministry in one of the world's most expansive health care settings. Students interested in chaplaincy ...

Before entering the room of a COVID-19 patient, the Rev. Peggy Kelley dons personal protective gear — both physical and spiritual. She pulls on a sterile gown and places a face shield over her mask.

Training to be a hospital chaplain for a year changed the way I see suffering. Life and death in the hospital were tenuous and terrifying. Nothing was impossible and nothing was guaranteed. Sometimes ...

(The Conversation) — Chaplaincy emerged as a professional field in the mid-20th century. In the years since, their roles have evolved and they have also come to include many diverse religious ...

Nicole Thompson holds her son Wilder, who is being treated for COVID-19 Oct. 5, 2021, at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital in St. Louis. (CNS photo/Callaghan O'Hare, Reuters) When Hope ...

On his first day training as a chaplain at UC San Diego Health, Rev. Matthew Valdez was embedded with the palliative care team. His very first patient died. Shaken by the experience, Valdez ...

Rabbi Sarah Barukh met a hospital chaplain for the first time around 15 years ago. “I promptly kicked them out of my room,” she said. “I said, ‘No, thank you.’” Barukh assumed that the chaplain was ...

“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 hospital ...

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience." —French philosopher, priest, and paleontologist, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Spiritual Care ...