Thanks to our members of the National Association of Catholic Nurses, USA who have compiled the following Vatican documents and links.

If you should find a link in error, please let us know.

The New Charter for Health Care Workers — 2017

The Charter for Health Care Workers — 1994

  • From the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers “ [READ HERE], 1994.

Congregation for Catholic Education

  • Male and Female He Created Them: Towards a Path of Dialogue on the Question of Gender Theory in Education [READ HERE] February 2, 2019.

Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue —Pontifical Council for Culture

  • Jesus Christ-The Bearer of the Water of Life: A Christian Reflection on the “New Age,” 2003

Church documents on Marriage & the Family

  • Amoris Laetitia (On Love in the Family) Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation promulgated by Pope Francis, 2016
  • Gratissimam Sane (Letter to Families) promulgated by Pope St. John Paul II, 1994
  • Familiaris Consortio (On the Role of the Christian Family in the Modern World), Apostolic Exhortation, Pope St. John Paul II, 1981
  • Humane Vitae (On Human Life), Encyclical, Pope Paul VI, 1968
  • (Papal Directives for the Woman of Today), Address, Pope Pius XII, 1947
  • Casti Connubii (On Christian Marriage), Encyclical, Pope Pius XI, 1930

Selected Papal Writings

Pope Francis

  • Address to the Italian National Federation of the Orders of Doctors & Dental Surgeons, September 20, 2019
  • Euthanasia, Redemptive Suffering, Hope.
    Address to the Italian National Federation of the Orders of Doctors & Dental Surgeons, 20Sep2019
  • Euthanasia, Redemptive Suffering, Hope.
    Speech of His Holiness Francis to Members of the Italian Association of Medical Oncology (AIOM), Pope Francis, 2Sep2019
  • Evangelii Gaudium (Joy of the Gospel), Apostolic Exhortation on the Proclamation of the Gospel in Today’s World, Pope Francis, 2013

Pope Benedict XVI

Pope St. John Paul II

Pope Paul VI

  • Humane Vitae (On Human Life), Encyclical, Pope Paul VI, 1968

Pope Pius XII

Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF)