Birthing accompaniment

08/10/2024 4 min
Birthing accompaniment

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Episode Synopsis

Author and Jesuit Father Richard Leonard SJ reads a section from his latest book 'Why God?'. In the piece Father Richard reflects on a time when he was given the opportunity to be part of a birthing experience with a young woman named Mary who fell pregnant at the age of sixteen and had no birthing partner.