Franciscans back to work in Walter Reed after new contract aleteia.org

Franciscan priests will once again minister to veterans at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, after regaining a contract with the hospital. The new contract will last for 5 years and will extend the relationship between the two groups that has lasted more than two decades.

Aleteia previously reported on Walter Reed’s April decision to cancel their contract with the Franciscans, choosing instead to work with a secular firm that would send chaplains to the hospital. The Archdiocese of the Military, however, pushed back on the decision, noting that a private secular firm could not provide Catholic priests and could therefore not provide Catholic services and sacraments.

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