The vocation of the Catholic physician consists in transmitting Christ’s healing love as a good Samaritan, says Cardinal Javier Lozano Baragan.

The president of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Ministry said this in an in-depth analysis published by the World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations.

Being a Catholic physician “involves proximity and special intimacy with God, and at the same time  represents  an opening-up and being a complete gift to others,” Cardinal Lozano Barragan said.

Father Giancarlo Bossi, the Italian missionary priest who was kidnapped in the Philippines June 10, was released July 19.

The PIME missionary was set free on Thursday evening on a roadside near Karumatan, a predominantly Muslim town in the southern Philippines. He reported that he has been treated well, and never felt that his life was in danger.