The duo packed their bags, moved to New York City and started working in Catholic hospitals with AIDS wards. So, Baltosiewich and another nun, Sister Mary Ellen Rombach, told their superior that they needed to go learn about HIV and AIDS elsewhere to prepare for when the pandemic would hit Belleville, O'Loughin says.
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But Baltosiewich didn’t know how to help and grew frustrated. Baltosiewich worked in emergency rooms and intensive care units in the Midwest but decided she wanted to do something easier as she neared age 40, O'Loughin says.īaltosiewich moved to Belleville and started homecare nursing - where she met her first patient with advanced AIDS. One story told in the book is that of Sister Carol Baltosiewich, a nun from the small city of Belleville in southern Illinois. Over dinner one night, an older priest friend of O'Loughin’s told him about the extent of the clash between the gay community and the Catholic church over AIDS and encouraged him to explore it. The “hostile development” of church leaders coming out against same-sex marriage felt novel to him, he says, and he didn’t know who to talk to about how to live as a gay Catholic. As a closeted gay Catholic himself, his work took him on a personal journey. and Catholic leaders fighting against same-sex marriage. O'Loughin spent the last decade reporting on Catholicism in the U.S. “And then to set out to write an entire book with a premise sort of covering those topics, I was a bit daunting, but ultimately I'm glad that I did.” “Even though I'm comfortably gay and comfortably Catholic, I still have a hard time kind of talking about that,” he says. Right at the beginning of the book, O'Loughin writes: “I am gay and I am Catholic.” Putting those words on paper wasn’t easy, he says. His reporting led him to reflect on his own life as well. O'Loughin tells these stories in a new book, " Hidden Mercy: Aids, Catholics, and the Untold Story of Compassion in the Face of Fear." In the 1980s and 1990s, many AIDS activists believed the Catholic Church turned its back on people dying of the disease.īut at the same time, many devout Catholics and clergy reached out and even ministered to sick young men who were shunned by the institution of the church.
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