The Heart in Paraphrase: When Spirituality Informs Health Care

"Ethics is not only about making decisions, but it is also concerned with the inner dynamics of character behind our actions. Our ability to nurture virtue, to see into the depth dimension of our experience, and to cooperate with the action of God in the way we care for each other are not only moral skills, they are the heart in paraphrase and the measure of our spirituality. For the religious believer, the convictions we hold about God and the spiritual practices that we engage to nurture our relationship tp God influence the content, tone, and quality of our moral life. This lecture will show that nurturing the virtue of humility, maintaining the capacity for relationships, and seeing life with resurrection hope are only three implications of how spirituality informs health care." The speaker will be Richard M. Gula, S.S. of the Franciscan School of Theology.