Working at the Catholic Hospital
Now frankly, they can’t be too harsh about religions because their patients are certainly not all Catholic. However, they can be a bit on the annoying side. When you register as a patient you have to give a religious preference. If your faith isn’t listed, or you don’t have one at all, you’re listed in their system as non-denominational. I know this for a fact because that is how I am listed in their patient system. Wicca and Pagan are not options.
Working there however, was pretty straightforward. I wore my pentacle necklace on many occasions. Rarely did anyone actually understand what it was, and those who did just shrugged it off as if to say to each their own. One would have thought that someone of my faith wouldn’t have been able to work in a Catholic run hospital, but really, I don’t think the church has as much to do with it as it used to. Sure, they have the priests and the nuns, but they also have Native Americans who come in there and perform various rites and ceremonies over ill or dying patients who are of Native American descent. Nothing is said to these people. Then again, they aren’t employees.
The only problems I ever encountered was trying to get my holy days off. Very rarely was I able to take a day off on the day of a Sabbat and frankly, since they weren’t recognized as holidays, with the exception of Halloween which wasn’t technically a holiday to them, I usually had problems getting the nights in question off. Other than that, I never encountered any problems with being employed by the hospital and being of an “alternative” faith.