Papers Session: Emergent Sites of Care: Innovation and Solidarity in Chaplaincy
Abstract for Online Program Book (maximum 150 words)
This paper agues that healthcare chaplains should become more actively involved in organized labor as part of their vocation and as a strategy for sustaining the future of chaplaincy. Drawing on Catholic social thought, feminist ethics, labor history, and ethnographic interviews with chaplains in healthcare contexts and nurses involved in the 2026 New York City nurses' strike, I develop a pragmatic account of solidarity as both moral virtue, social practice, and professional call.