Below is your Christmas Card from the Vatican to CICIAMS / NACN-USA Members From: The Dicastery of Integral Human Development, Vatican City To: International Catholic Committee of Nurses and Medico-Social Assistants (CICIAMS), Vatican City NACN-USA is the national Catholic Nursing organization representing the USA within CICIAMS.
Read international Catholic Nurse news from around the world. In this Fall 2023 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 CICIAMS Testimony at the Annual Meeting with the Moderators of Associations of the Faithful, Ecclesial Movements and New Communities June 22, 2023, Rome, Italy. A note from His Holiness Pope Francis to Catholic Nurses. Updates and pictures from Singapore Catholic Nurses Guild. [...]
A letter to the Members of the Uniform Law Committee on the proposed revisions to the UDDA Read and Print Full Letter Date: July 11, 2023 The National Association of Catholic Nurses, USA (NACN-USA) is a professional Catholic Nursing organization whose members advocate to protect the dignity and sanctity of all human life from conception to natural death. Nurse members of NACN-USA strongly oppose the proposed revisions to the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) because: Death would be determined based on permanent verses irreversible circulatory or neurological criteria. [...]
Letter from His Holiness Pope Francis with greetings to CICIAMS Members (and thereby all NACN-USA Members) Translation: Vatican 27 June 2023 Dear, I would like to thank you for your kind letter and for the expression of your spiritual closeness. I encourage all members of CICIAMS to continue this important service with love, generosity, and joy. Thank you for your witness and for the good you do throughout the world. Keep up the good work. May the Lord bless you and the Madonna keep you. Please [...]
NACN-USA was a proud sponsor of the celebration at Madonna University in Livonia, Michigan on Saturday, February 25, 2023. The nursing program titled, "Celebrating 60 years of Nursing Education Excellence" highlighted the care and compassion of the educators whose founders are Felician Sisters and their student graduates. Members of NACN-USA in attendance included Zachary McAllister, Madonna University staff member, CeeLee Pavlak, President, Kalamazoo Diocese Local Council, Janet Munday, Regional Director and Diana Ruzicka, CICIAMS General Secretary. During an open mic portion of the evening, Diana Ruzicka spoke about the special [...]
OSV Interview of President Patricia Sayers, DNP, RN for National Nurses Week 2023
The NACN-USA Board of Directors agreed to co-sign on a Parental Rights letter dated March 21,2023. Read the entire letter here. The letter was addressed to the Honorable Virginia Foxx Chairwoman House of Representatives Committee on Education & the Workforce where it identified concerns of protecting Parental Rights towards the health and well being of all children. The House of Representatives agreed to create a "Parents Bill of Rights" acknowledging the rights of parents to view school curriculums including topics on health education, fundamental right of parents to direct their [...]
Catholic Nurses are fighting to protect religious freedom and conscience rights in providing care with a recent co-authored statement to the Biden Administration's Health and Human Services. Public Comment Opposed to Some of the Provisions in “Safeguarding the Rights of Conscience as Protected by Federal Statutes" [RIN 0945-AA18]1 Doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals must be free to practice their professions in accordance with their professional judgment and ethical beliefs. Without religious freedom and conscience protections such as were provided for in the 2019 Final Rule, healthcare professionals throughout the [...]
February 8, 2023 marks the memorial of Saint Josephine Bakhita, patron saint of victims of human trafficking. Join Pope Francis in celebrating the Ninth International Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking, on the theme “Journeying in Dignity”. Read the Pope's message.
Maria Arvonio, President Elect, recent guest-host of the Joe Velti, Holy Souls Ministry Radio Program, where she interviewed our member, Deb O'Hara Ruskowki, RN on the topic of human trafficking. We appreciate the opportunities coming from Joe Veltri to have Maria and the Catholic Nurse Voice on his program. Listen to the program from February 8, 2023. What does the Holy Father have to say about Human Trafficking? Read the message from Pope Francis here
