Vatican City, Feb 1, 2019 / 11:18 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis said Friday that health centers should always be places of life, where the sick and suffering are cared for both physically and spiritually.

“Your buildings must be ‘inns’ – like that of the parable of the Samaritan – at the service of life, spaces where especially the sick and the poor feel welcomed,” the pope said Feb. 1 to a group of the Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God.