Hospital chaplaincy services are not a luxury to be discarded when budgets are tight, the Archbishop of Westminster has warned.In his address at the annual View Day service at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London on Wednesday, Archbishop Vincent Nichols said the sick need places to pray "to receive the consoling touch of the divine" as, he said, do medical staff "as part of their care for their sick brothers and sisters."
Archbishop Nichols said Pope Francis has spoken of the need "to protect the sick."