title: Missionary Ministry in Hospitals
abstract: At first glance, the role of the hospital priest is to provide spiritual support and guidance to both people with physical or mental suffering and their families in a time of crisis.The priest of charity, being ordained at the altar, is indebted first to God, then to his own expression of faith and sense of vocation, to the patient, but also to the hospital as an institution.All these obligations usually generate a tension between the spiritual process of pastoral practice and the institutional 
journal: Journal of Intercultural Management and Ethics