Catholic Clergy Have Their Own Psychiatric Hospital?
Today’s Post
reports:
A Silver Spring psychiatric hospital that specializes in treating Catholic clergy has been cited for problems that are “serious in nature,” according to a report from Maryland health officials who investigated the facility after a patient drowned himself in a bathtub there in January.
[…]St. Luke, which sees about 600 people a year, almost all of them priests and nuns […]
The thrust of the story is about poor conditions at the hospital, it
being ill-equipped to deal with suicidal patients, and so forth. Which
is a scandal, but not what caught my attention, which was:
There’s a psychiatric hospital that specializes in priests and nuns?
Seriously?
There are hospitals that specialize in soldiers, like Walter Reed. And
I imagine there are psychiatric hospitals that specialize in police
officers and firefighters. But clergy? Really?
If it’s that stressful a lifestyle, then maybe they should rethink how
they’re doing it.