Walter Reed National Military Medical Center is receiving backlash after it ended its contract for pastoral care and directed a 'cease and desist order' to a community of Franciscan Catholic priests and friars at Holy Name College on March 31, days before Holy Week.
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center is receiving backlash after it ended its contract for pastoral care and directed a"cease and desist order" to a community of Franciscan Catholic priests and friars at Holy Name College on March 31, days before Holy Week.
The Archdiocese for the Military Services was created by Pope Saint John Paul II to provide the Catholic Church's full range of pastoral ministries to service members in the U.S. military. “The refusal to provide adequate pastoral care while awarding a contract for Catholic ministry to a for-profit company that has no way of providing Catholic priests to the medical center is a glaring violation of service members’ and veterans’ Right to the Free Exercise of Religion,” the archdiocese said in a statement.
The Archbishop for the Military Services maintains that while Walter Reed’s chaplain office claims to provide Catholic care during Holy Week, they are still"without Catholic priests present at the medical center and service members and veterans are being denied the constitutional right to practice their religion."
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