In a 2013 interview, Pope Francis famously likened the church to a
field hospital, saying that his vision of the ideal church is one
that attends to the overwhelming suffering of the world before
concerning itself with smaller matters. In this book William
Cavanaugh adopts Pope Francis's metaphor to show how the church can
help heal both the spiritual and the material wounds of the world.
As he examines the intersection of theology with themes of
religious freedom, economic injustice, religious violence, and
other pressing topics, Cavanaugh emphasizes that the church cannot
condemn the evils of the world from a position of superiority.
Rather, he says, its practices of solidarity with humanity must be
based on a profound recognition that the church shares in the guilt
of human sin. Cavanaugh's Field Hospital provides guideposts for a
church that is willing to go outside of itself onto the
battlefields of today - both metaphorical and literal - not to
inflict wounds but to bind them up and heal them.
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