2017 Convocation of Catholic Leaders

USCCB Convocation of Catholic Leaders The Joy of the Gospel in America July 1-4, 2017, Orlando, Florida The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops convened an unprecedented gathering of key leaders from dioceses and Catholic organizations from across the country in order to assess the challenges and opportunities of our time, particularly in the context of the Church in the United States. The gathering assembled Catholic leaders for a strategic conversation, under the leadership of the bishops, on forming missionary disciples to animate the Church and to engage the culture. [...]

2017-07-04T00:00:00-04:00July 4, 2017|In The News, Integration Of Faith And Health, News, Patient Advocacy, Resources|
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Conscience Protection Act of 2017 (H.R. 644)

Conscience Protection Act of 2017 (H.R. 644) The Conscience Protection Act (CPA) of 2017 (H.R. 644) has been introduced in the House of Representatives by Reps. Diane Black (R-TN) and Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) and in the Senate (S. 301) by Sen. James Lankford (R-OK). This much-needed, common-sense legislation addresses several “loopholes” in current federal laws that have allowed violations of conscience rights to continue and would ensure that those who provide health care and health coverage can continue to do so without being forced by government to help destroy innocent [...]

2017-06-12T00:00:00-04:00June 12, 2017|Integration Of Faith And Health, News, Patient Advocacy, Resources|
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Urging AMA Not to Change Policy on Assisted Suicide

NACN-USA Urges AMA NOT to change their policy of opposition to physician assisted suicide In June 2016, at the annual meeting, the 540 members of the American Medical Association (AMA) house of delegates, representing all facets of the house of medicine, voted to ask the board of trustees to study the issue of physician assisted suicide. The board has referred the item to the AMA council on ethical and judicial affairs, which will conduct an in-depth literature review, and will ultimately report back to the house of delegates. Currently the [...]

2017-02-24T00:00:00-05:00February 24, 2017|In The News, Integration Of Faith And Health, News, Patient Advocacy, Resources|
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The New Charter for Health Care Workers

The New Charter for Health Care Workers is a revision and updating of the earlier 1995 edition, also produced by the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers. The work is divided into three major sections: “Procreating,” “Living,” and “Dying,” each of which lays out authoritative teachings in medical ethics grounded in the traditional resources of the Church. There are extensive citations to magisterial documents. The book will be of service to all who are working in healthcare, especially those in Catholic facilities or who are attending [...]

2016-12-14T00:00:00-05:00December 14, 2016|In The News, Integration Of Faith And Health, News, Patient Advocacy, Resources|
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Comments to ANA – VSED

NACN-USA Comment on ANA Draft Position Statement on Artificial Nutrition & Hydration Read ANA Comments   ANA Proposal on Nutrition & Hydration at the End of Life may Damage the Profession of Nursing and Patients If Adopted This proposal makes broad generalizations about the withholding of nutrition and hydration. Despite statistical reports about the overall benefit, or lack of benefit, of assisted nutrition and hydration in some cases at the end of life, all cases are case specific, and need to be assessed as such, to determine if assisted nutrition [...]

2016-11-01T00:00:00-04:00November 1, 2016|In The News, Integration Of Faith And Health, News, Patient Advocacy, Resources|
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New Prefect – New Dicastery

Effective January 1, 2017, Pope Francis instituted the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development into which was merged the competences of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, the Pontifical Council Cor Unum, the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, and the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers. Within the Dicastery are: The Commission for Charity The Commission for Ecology The Commission for Health Care Workers   Cardinal Peter Turkson, the President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, is the first prefect of [...]

2016-08-18T00:00:00-04:00August 18, 2016|In The News, Integration Of Faith And Health, News, Resources|
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Nurse Meehan Receives Vatican Recognition

Marylee Meehan, Vatican Swiss Guard, H.E. Monsignor Zygmunt Zimowski, President PCHCW & Dr. J.M. Simon, President World Federation of the Catholic Medical Associations Gratitude to Our Member and Past President from the Vatican Dear Ms Meehan, I am writing to you to express my personal gratitude and that of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers (for Health Pastoral Care) for the nearness and solidarity that you demonstrated to us on the occasion of the death of our President, Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski. He bore further valuable witness in [...]

2016-08-05T00:00:00-04:00August 5, 2016|In The News, Integration Of Faith And Health, News, Resources|
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