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Catholic Nurses at National Eucharistic Congress 2024

MAKING HISTORY Join us for the National Eucharistic Congress in Indianpolis, Indiana July 17-July 21, 2024 NACN-USA is a sponsor and will have a table at the event! Please stop by our table in the exhibit hall to meet some of the NACN-USA Team! This is a pivotal moment in American history, the legacy of the Catholic Church and Catholic Nurses across the nation. We are expecting tens of thousands of pilgrims—but space is limited. Jesus Christ will be there. Will you?

The Moral Uncertainty of “Brain Death”

Article from Homiletic & Pastoral Review posted here for our members.  Read and reviewed by the NACN-USA Ethics Committee. 1968 was a year of upheaval, perhaps best remembered by Americans for the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy, and by Catholics for the promulgation of Humanae vitae. But the unobtrusive coining of a new definition should be included with these momentous events, for it changed medical practice by shifting the boundary between life and death. In 1968 the Harvard Medical School Ad Hoc Committee introduced the oxymoronic definition “irreversible coma [...]

2024 Nominations

The Membership and Elections Committee is seeking NACN-USA Members interested in serving in leadership positions on the Board of Directors for the 2024-2026 term. (July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2026). President Elect (assumes Presidency 2026-2028) Corresponding Secretary Regional Directors: Region 2 (NY, NJ, PA, DE, MD, DC) Region 4 (AL, NC, SC, TN, GA, FL, Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico) Region 6 (TX, OK, AR, LA, MS) Region 8 (NV,UT, CO, AZ, NM) WHO IS ELIGIBLE? Members in good standing who have been a General Member of the NACN-USA for [...]

2024-05-06T19:04:26-04:00March 31, 2024|In The News, Integration Of Faith And Health|

Chemical Abortion and Nationwide Invitation to Prayer

The USCCB's president and the chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on Pro-Life Activities announced a nationwide invitation to prayer. On March 26, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case that could impact the widespread accessibility of chemical abortion (abortion pills). Chemical abortions are now the most common form of abortion in the United States. WHEN Beginning Monday, March 25 and continuing through June, when a decision is expected. HOW TO PARTICIPATE Offer this Prayer to St. Joseph, Defender of Life daily for the end of [...]

CICIAMS Quarterly Newsletter Winter 2024

Read international Catholic Nurse news from around the world.  In this Winter 2024 edition read about From the International President's Desk - Dr. Rosemary Khosi Mthethwa, MPH, PhD, RN Preparing for the CICIAMS Africa Region Congress to be held on the 5 -9 August 2024 in Nairobi Kenya Nominations for the 2024 Executive Board positions Bioethical Issues – International Perspective Caring Corrupted: The Killing Nurses of the Third Reich CICIAMS Europe Region Assisted Suicide with or without a conscience clause CICIAMS Asia Region "Woke" "Wokism" various liberal ideas including cancel [...]

Catholic Nurses and Supreme Court Brief

National Association of Catholic Nurses, USA is the national professional organization for Catholic nurses in the United States. A nonprofit group of hundreds of nurses of different backgrounds, the NACN-USA focuses on promoting moral principles of patient advocacy, human dignity, and professional and spiritual development in the integration of faith and health within the Catholic context in nursing. Its members are critically concerned for the wellbeing of women and their unborn children threatened by the FDA-approved protocol for prescribing and dispensing mifepristone, described herein. * * * The current FDA [...]

Membership Dues Increase

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: 2024 NACN-USA Membership Dues Increase Effective March 1, 2024 Shortly after the celebration of the Epiphany, the National Association of Catholic Nurses, USA (NACN-USA) Board of Directors held their monthly meeting to discuss strategic outreach goals for the 2024 calendar year. The Board voted to approve a modest, but long overdue increase in the annual general membership dues effective March 1, 2024. Membership renewals and new memberships can occur as listed in the chart below. This increase in dues will allow the NACN-USA to further optimize state, national, [...]

2024-07-22T21:41:19-04:00January 31, 2024|In The News|

2023 Year in Review

2023: A Year of Spiritual Nourishment, Advocacy, and Stewardship This report highlights 2023 NACN-USA accomplishments, endeavors underway, and vision for the coming year. Each pursuit presented involved active members from coast to coast. We have been blessed. Read the 2023 Year in Review

Catholic Nurse Rosary Video

A gift to the Blessed Mother and to you. Catholic Nurses from across the United States and the world pour their hearts out to the Blessed Mother in this beautiful, multiligual, prayer to Jesus through Mary.  Join us in prayer and subscribe to our channel. Watch our Rosary Video on Youtube

Establishment of Catholic Nursing Associations

April 8, 1938 Pizzardo, G. Cardinal. April 8, 1938. Letter to U.S. bishops. Retrieved from the Archives of The Catholic University of America.  ACUA, Aquinas Hall storage. November 2018. Retrieved from http://archives.lib.cua.edu/recman.cfm Records shelved in the archives storage facility in Aquinas Hall. November 2018. Retrieved from http://archives.lib.cua.edu/infostaff.cfm (Located by Dr. Cheryl Hettman, PhD, RN, Chair, Archives & History Committee, National Association of Catholic Nurses, USA and Past President 2010-2012). Read and Print the full letter here from Cardinal-Pizzardo-Letter-Addendum_C.Hettman_4-8-1938 Your Excellency, In the year 1935, as Your Excellency may recall, the [...]

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