ABSTRACT

Father Julian Chiochio’s Comfort Care Group. An oasis of old-fashioned humanity in the high-tech desert of the modern hospital, the article called it. And a picture showed Father Julian with protruding jaw, in what could have been compassionate exhortation or the effort to dislodge something stuck in his teeth. It struck her as a much better way to mark time while waiting to make babies than subbing for burnt-out teachers in South-Central Los Angeles. Whatever makes you happy, her husband Jonathan said.