The Chapel That Became a Storage Room

When Chaplain David Rivera arrived at Memorial Hospital in San Antonio, he found the chapel wedged between a supply closet and the billing office. Someone had pushed a photocopier against the back wall. Stacks of insurance forms covered the prayer kneeler. A vending machine hummed in the corner where a cross once hung. The room still had "Chapel" on the door, but it had become something else entirely — a dumping ground for whatever didn't fit anywhere else.…