Health & Wellbeing

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OPEN HOUSE ISSUE 335

HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Welcome to the June issue of Open House, dedicated in the most part to the theme of health and wellbeing.

Our guest editor for this issue is Martin Murray, lecturer in Adult Nursing at the University of the West of Scotland. Prior to that Martin was the community nurse for homeless people in Inverclyde for eleven years. He has spent most of his nursing career looking after the health of marginalised groups particularly homeless people and people with drug addictions.

He has a particular interest in healthcare ethics and Catholic Social Teaching and has a Doctorate in Practical Theology from Glasgow University where he investigated the ethics of providing a supervised injecting facility for people who inject illegal drugs.

He is married to Claire, and they have six adopted children and one adopted dog.

Martin has gathered a formidable group of contributors for this important theme of health and wellbeing and we hope you enjoy reading their work.

Martin Murray

Editorial

MARTIN MURRAY reminds us that health is more than just an absence of physical illness.

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The healing ministry of Jesus

TOM MAGILL consider the central place of healing in Jesus' ministry

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Spiritual health and spiritual care

PETER KEVERN asks what is spiritual care and why does it matter?

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This 'Dear Green Place'

DR NICOLA JAMES on the importance of having listening spaces and places

Injecting heroin

Safe injecting spaces

MARTIN MURRAY gives an update on supervised injecting of drugs in Scotland

Healing of a bleeding women Marcellinus Peter Catacomb

What does it mean to be well?

STUART PATTERSON reflects that when Jesus healed, he resorted bodies, relationships and hope

Parliamentary office

The law and ethics of assisted suicide

DR MAUREEN SWEENEY & FR CHARLES COYLE look at the Assisted Dying Bill

Holyrood Care not killing

Community campaigners

MARY CULLEN considers the role played by local communities in the defeat of Scotland’s assisted dying bill

Magnifica Humanitas

Magnifica humanitas - An AI critique

EDITORIAL - What does AI have to say about Pope Leo's encyclical on AI?

Festival of Synodality

Taking the pulse - the spiritual health of the church

MARY CULLEN attended the Festival of Synodality in June and sees in it a reflection of the health of the Church in Scotland

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Is being a Catholic good for your mental health?

MARTIN MURRAY makes the case for Catholicism as a benefit to our mental health

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My Sisters Keeper

CHARLES COYLE reviews My Sisters Keeper, a film about coping with terminal illness

Sunset from Tigh Sgoile

Heavenly

A poem by STEPHEN SMYTH
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Lead, Kindly Light - The Sixteen

PAUL MATHESON reviews The Sixteen: ‘Lead, Kindly Light’ 

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