Catholic Church to counsel bereaved
The Catholic Church is forming a team comprising priests, nuns and the laity to start a counselling ministry on ‘accompanying the dying and coping with death and bereavement’.
By John Nzinjah
The Catholic Church is forming a team comprising priests, nuns and the laity to start a counselling ministry on ‘accompanying the dying and coping with death and bereavement’.
“Four priests from the dioceses of Arua, Fort Portal, Kiyinga Mityana and Mbarara have finished training in this profession at the International institute for Pastoral Theology of Health Care in Rome,†the Pastoral Vicar, Archdiocese of Mbarara, the Rev. Fr. Paschal Betunga, said .
He was recently representing the Archbishop of Mbarara, Paul Bakyenga, at a three-day training workshop on counselling the dying and helping the bereaved to cope with the loss.
The training was facilitated by Fr. Arnaldo Pangrazzi from the International Institute for the Pastoral Theology of Health Care in Rome.
He said the Catholic Church was concerned with the holistic existence of a human being and challenged participants to help the dying to experience a peaceful death.
The topics covered included humanising dying as part of life, whether illness is punishment from God or not, caring for the dying, attitudes to avoid before the dying and attitudes to cultivate before the dying.
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The Catholic Church is forming a team comprising priests, nuns and the laity to start a counselling ministry on ‘accompanying the dying and coping with death and bereavement’.
“Four priests from the dioceses of Arua, Fort Portal, Kiyinga Mityana and Mbarara have finished training in this profession at the International institute for Pastoral Theology of Health Care in Rome,†the Pastoral Vicar, Archdiocese of Mbarara, the Rev. Fr. Paschal Betunga, said .
He was recently representing the Archbishop of Mbarara, Paul Bakyenga, at a three-day training workshop on counselling the dying and helping the bereaved to cope with the loss.
The training was facilitated by Fr. Arnaldo Pangrazzi from the International Institute for the Pastoral Theology of Health Care in Rome.
He said the Catholic Church was concerned with the holistic existence of a human being and challenged participants to help the dying to experience a peaceful death.
The topics covered included humanising dying as part of life, whether illness is punishment from God or not, caring for the dying, attitudes to avoid before the dying and attitudes to cultivate before the dying.
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