Abortion Pill Reversal Hotline – 877-558-0333

[Read Case Studies] & [Visit the Website] & [On Call, Online, Employment Opportunities]

Abortion and Breast Cancer Risk

Reproductive Choices of Young Women Affecting Future Breast Cancer Risk, American College of Pediatricians – October 2019 [READ HERE]

Addiction

  • Comunita Cenacolo America – Community Life; healing for those recovering from addiction [Read More]
  • HHS National Pain Strategy Letter [read more]</p>
  • Advancing the Practice of Pain Management Under the HHS Opioid Strategy [read more]</p>

Care for the Caregiver

Resources pending

Care for the Healthcare Caregiver

  • Curatio: an Apostolate for Catholic Health Care Workers [Read More]
    The Curatio Apostolate of Catholic Health Care Professionals was founded for all those who care for the sick: doctors, nurses, nursing home, hospice and clinic professionals, with a mission to promote, support and sustain the “Gospel of life,” and to see Christ in our patients and co-workers. [UpComing Events]
  • Annual Catholic Women Nurses’ Retreat, Bethany Retreat House, Dickson, Tennessee [Read More]
    The Dominican Sisters of St. Cecelia of Nashville Catholic Women Nurses Retreat (CWNR) began in 2018 at the request of several nurses. Encounter our Lord in the hills of Middle Tennessee. Prayer, silence, Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Eucharistic Adoration and sharing for nurses practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, registered nurses and licensed practical/vocational nurses. [UpComing Events]

Catholic Charities

Offices located in each diocese

Chastity

Universal Chastity Education, Uganda
In the 1980s and early 1990s, HIV/AIDS devastated many lives in Africa. At that time, Uganda had the highest rate of HIV in the world, with 21% of their population infected. The Ugandan response that proved effective was their approach: “Abstinence, Be Faithful, through Christ,” that is, a person waited to have sexual intercourse until marriage and was faithful to that person in marriage.

This method was counter-cultural since polygamy is intertwined in African culture. The Ugandans figured if they begged God to intervene in their crisis, got down on their knees to pray, went back to their Biblical teaching, then surely that should help! In 2001, Uganda surprised the world by reducing their HIV/AIDs rate to 5% by changing their behavior to adopt “Abstinence, Be Faithful through Christ.”

It was their faith in God and prayer vigils that gave them the strength to change their behavior. UCE was founded in 2004 to continue to help them in their Christian approach to fighting HIV/AIDS and living healthy lives through spreading the message of “Abstinence, Be Faithful, through Christ.” The Africans remind us that “Our God is a God of second chances!” Since UCE was founded in 2004, we are approaching 500,000 chastity commitments signed by youth and individuals!

Contraception

Divorce

Drug Use: Pre-Birth to Pre-Death

  • HHS National Pain Strategy Letter [read more]
  • Advancing the Practice of Pain Management Under the HHS Opioid Strategy [read more]

Embracing Dementia

  • Practical help and resources FOR THOSE AFFECTED personally or professionally by Alzheimer’s and other dementia diseases.  Dementia Education & Support Group Program Starter Kit available.
    EWTN Video sharing the book and program [Select here]

Faith Community Nursing

  • Faith Community Nursing/Health Ministries Northwest [READ MORE]
  • Westberg Institute (formerly the International Parish Nurse Resource Center) [READ MORE]
FEMM
  • A Comprehensive Women’s Health Program: 1) Learn about your body; 2) Track your health, 3) Manage your fertility, 4) Find a Health Center [SELECT HERE]
Fertility Health Resource List

Developed by CICIAMS United Nations Nurse Delegate Team. Designed to help nurses in their ministries.

Gender Ideology

Homosexuality & Same Sex Attraction

  • Homosexuality and Hope – Catholic Medical Association.
  • “Intrinsically Disordered” is explained in this article from the National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC) to help us lovingly approach and share the Church’s teaching on same-sex attraction.
  • Courage – An apostolate of the Catholic Church which ministers to persons with same-sex attractions and their loved ones.
  • Desire for the Everlasting Hills – Courage Apostolate share three journeys to chastity [Watch]
  • The Third Way – Hope for people with same sex attraction who share their journeys to chastity [Watch]
    EnCourage is an outreach which ministers to relatives, spouses, and friends of persons with same-sex attractions.
  • Making Marriage Meaningless by the Austin Institute – the effect of same sex unions [watch]

Immunizations Derived from Aborted Fetal Tissue

  • Vatican response to Mrs. Vinnedge, Executive Director, Children of God for Life regarding the request for clarification on whether it is licit to vaccinate children with vaccines prepared using cell lines derived from aborted human fetuses [Read More]
    • there is a grave responsibility to use alternative vaccines and to make a conscientious objection with regard to those which have moral problems;
    • as regards the vaccines without an alternative, the need to contest so that others may be prepared must be reaffirmed, as should be the lawfulness of using the former in the meantime insomuch as is necessary in order to avoid a serious risk not only for one’s own children but also, and perhaps more specifically, for the health conditions of the population as a whole – especially for pregnant women;
    • the lawfulness of the use of these vaccines should not be misinterpreted as a declaration of the lawfulness of their production, marketing and use, but is to be understood as being a passive material cooperation and, in its mildest and remotest sense, also active, morally justified as an extrema ratio due to the necessity to provide for the good of one’s children and of the people who come in contact with the children (pregnant women);
    • such cooperation occurs in a context of moral coercion of the conscience of parents, who are forced to choose to act against their conscience or otherwise, to put the health of their children and of the population as a whole at risk. This is an unjust alternative choice, which must be eliminated as soon as possible.
  • U.S. Abortion-tainted vaccines, and the available alternatives chart. [Read More]

Lourdes Special Needs Pilgrimages

A spiritual journey of healing & peace.

Marriage

  • Engaged Encounter … A Marriage preparation experience. “A wedding is a day, a marriage is a lifetime”
  • Marriage Encounter … A weekend to bring a husband and wife closer together.
  • Retrouvaille…a lifeline for Marriages. A time for healing for couples with marital problems.
  • Beginning Experience – Serving the widowed, separated and divorced.

Mental Health

See Catholic Practices for Listing “Catholic Mental Health and Therapy”[SELECT HERE]

PREPARES – Pregnancy & Parenting Support

PREPARES is a nurturing, proactive response of the Catholic community throughout the state of Washington to provide families the supportive services needed to help ensure healthy childhood development from pregnancy to age five. We want to make sure that no child – born or unborn – is ever abandoned or alone. We want to make sure that every mother whether she is in a small rural town or a large city has caring people around her walking those critical first five hears of her child’s life.

Through Catholic Community Services of Western Washington and Catholic Charities in Spokane and Yakima, the Catholic Church has provided a century of life-affirming professional supportive services for infant children and their mothers and families including pre-natal care, counseling, adoption services, and housing and medical care referrals. Now, PREPARES enhances these cornerstone services by offering free of charge, additional life-giving, life-changing tools that include:

Urgent childcare supplies, Fatherhood and parent support groups and Family Companions. Services are available to all in need regardless of religion. Thank you for being a parent. Read More

Pregnancy Assistance

Sisters of Life Visitation Mission.

Rachel’s Vineyard

For Hope and Healing after Abortion

Hope & Healing after Abortion retreats with the Sisters of Life, hopeandhealing@sistersoflife.org

St. Vincent de Paul Society – Offers person-to-person service to those in need. Also operates thrift stores & food pantries

Reiki

Science & Religion

Pathology Report-Eucharistic Miracle, Buenos Aires

Dr. Frederick T. Zugibe, MD, PhD, PC Report (Select Here) – Forensic Pathology review of Eucharistic Miracle from Buenos Aires, 1996. The pathology report of Dr. Zugibe is contained as an annexure in Ron Tesoriero book, UNSEEN-New Evidence, the Origin of Life under the Microscope available at www.reasontobelieve.com.au. A synopsis of the reported Eucharistic miracle which occurred in 1996 in the diocese of Cardinal Jorge Maria Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, is here

Suicide Prevention

DoD Service Members of the Armed Forces

Be There Peer Support 24/7 Hotline: 844-357-PEER (7337)
Be There Peer Support website

VA Suicide National Hotline

866-403-2668 or 800-273-8255

Veterans

Coming Soon – Strategies gleaned from the Cape Cod Summit

Survivor Assistance

T.A.P.S.

The Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors offers compassionate care to all those grieving the loss of a military loved one. Since 1994, TAPS has provided comfort and hope 24/7 through a national peer support network and connection to grief resources, all at no cost to surviving families and loved ones.

Teen STAR

1_TS_Logo_120TeenSTAR – Sexuality Teaching in the context of Adult Responsibility
Teacher Training Workshop, Contact Sr. Hanna Klaus, M.D., hannaklaus@earthlink.net
Phone: 301-897-9323

Yoga – Christian Alternatives

Yoga is considered one of the six branches of classical Hindu philosophy. Its goal is to reach “Kaivalya” (ultimate freedom) by releasing the soul from the chains of cause and effect (karma) which tie the person to continual reincarnation. Yoga uses physical exercises, powers of concentration and breathing techniques as well as meditation to achieve these ends and attain union with Brahman.”You can’t take a Hindu practice, throw some Christian music in the mix, and call it worshiping the one True God…This isn’t the way God asked us to worship Him” (Deut. 12:31).

[READ MORE on Women of Grace Blog]

Christian Alternatives

  • For children: Recess (more than “walk & talk”), soccer, basketball, softball, volleyball, gymnastics, jungle gym, pull-ups, tag, “red light green light,” stretching etc.
  • For adults: Yard work, running, jogging, walking, swimming, soccer, basketball, softball, volleyball, street hockey, gardening, helping a friend move, stretching, isometric exercises etc.
    The CDF documents describes our rich Catholic Tradition of Christian Meditation and how it differs from several meditation practices.
  • Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on some Aspects of Christian Meditation, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, 1989 [SELECT HERE to READ]