CHA president, board chair visit Vatican for discussions

December 1, 2023

A meeting of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life brought together, from left, Fr. Krzysztof Gierat, CMF; Sr. Rosemary Rese, PSDP; Sr. Mary Haddad, RSM, CHA president and CEO; Damond Boatwright, president and CEO of Hospital Sisters Health System and chair of the CHA board; and Cardinal João Bráz de Aviz, prefect of the dicastery.

 

Sr. Mary Haddad, RSM, CHA president and CEO, and Damond Boatwright, CHA board chair and president and CEO of Hospital Sisters Health System, visited the Vatican in November for several meetings related to Catholic health care.

Among the gatherings they attended during their time in Rome were those of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life; the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development; the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith; and the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life. They also met with Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin and U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See Ambassador Joseph Donnelly.

Sr. Mary is a member of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.

 

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