EXCLUSIVE: Walter Reed National Military Medical Center reinstated a contract for Catholic priests to provide care at the hospital after a "cease and desist" order from the facility earlier this ...

“We’ve just turned ministry on its head ... McNamara said the new Catholic pastoral care contract was awarded to Mack Global, LLC, a secular defense contracting firm based in Mechanicsville ...

The statement issued by Broglio’s office last week was stinging: “The refusal to provide adequate pastoral care while awarding a contract for Catholic ministry to a for-profit company that has ...

It cited its current active-duty Army Catholic priest in its Department of Pastoral Care. He is currently providing ... for the Franciscans’ Catholic ministry to be reinstated at least through ...

A top U.S. military hospital ended its contract with a community of Franciscan friars just before Holy Week, putting a for-profit firm in charge of Catholic pastoral care, according to the ...

The center instead assigned the ministry to Mack Global LLC ... and interest in resolving the question of Catholic pastoral care at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center." ...

“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 ...

For Catholics in the military, such care includes access to ... The archdiocese provides the full range of pastoral ministries and spiritual services to Catholic members of the armed forces ...