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Pedestrians walk past the emergency entrance at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York, March 16, 2010. The 160-year-old hospital closed the following month. (AP/Kathy Willens)

How a long-closed NYC Catholic hospital still provides lessons for the church

Even though New York's St. Vincent's Medical Center has shuttered, Seton Hall University historian Thomas Rzeznik says the hospital continues to provide important insights for other Catholic institutions today.

  • Author photo for Michael O'Loughlin, NCR executive editor
    Michael J. O'Loughlin
From left: Sr. Helen Prejean, Dead Man Walking author; Catherine Anyango Grünewald, illustrator for the new graphic edition; actress Susan Sarandon, who portrayed Prejean in the 1996 film; and Rose Vines, who adapted the text for the graphic novel, pose Nov. 6, 2025, at the book launch in Manhattan. (Fordham University/Leo Sorel)
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Graphic novel of 'Dead Man Walking' retains memoir's moral core

By Chris Herlinger
An empty room in a convent (Unsplash/Mario La Pergola)
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'Stone Yard Devotional' sets forgiveness, empathy and death in an Australian convent

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St. Joseph of Cupertino is depicted levitating in an 18th-century engraving by G.A. Lorenzini. (Wellcome Collection)
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Historian sets his eyes on levitating saints in book 'They Flew'

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Sister Jean's book, 'Wake Up With Purpose!', is a slam dunk

Pedestrians walk past the emergency entrance at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York, March 16, 2010. The 160-year-old hospital closed the following month. (AP/Kathy Willens)

How a long-closed NYC Catholic hospital still provides lessons for the church

Even though New York's St. Vincent's Medical Center has shuttered, Seton Hall University historian Thomas Rzeznik says the hospital continues to provide important insights for other Catholic institutions today.

  • Author photo for Michael O'Loughlin, NCR executive editor
    Michael J. O'Loughlin
From left: Sr. Helen Prejean, Dead Man Walking author; Catherine Anyango Grünewald, illustrator for the new graphic edition; actress Susan Sarandon, who portrayed Prejean in the 1996 film; and Rose Vines, who adapted the text for the graphic novel, pose Nov. 6, 2025, at the book launch in Manhattan. (Fordham University/Leo Sorel)
Book Reviews

Graphic novel of 'Dead Man Walking' retains memoir's moral core

By Chris Herlinger
An empty room in a convent (Unsplash/Mario La Pergola)
Book Reviews

'Stone Yard Devotional' sets forgiveness, empathy and death in an Australian convent

By
St. Joseph of Cupertino is depicted levitating in an 18th-century engraving by G.A. Lorenzini. (Wellcome Collection)
Book Reviews

Historian sets his eyes on levitating saints in book 'They Flew'

By

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Sister Jean's book, 'Wake Up With Purpose!', is a slam dunk

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