Early in his papacy, Francis referred to the Church as a kind of field hospital. Now Catholic dioceses and parishes throughout Europe are offering rooms to medical personnel exhausted by long hours at work or who will not go home to avoid the danger of spreading the virus to their loved ones.

Now the Church really is a “field hospital”
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