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Catholic doctors turn to direct primary care to practice medicine, faith

Jul 18, 2023

By Daniel Payne

As the subscription-based model of health care continues to grow, practitioners and patients say they are getting better care without... Read more

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How to comment on Biden rule forcing doctors to perform transition surgeries, abortions

Aug 5, 2022

By Edie Heipel

Members of the public have until October 3 to voice their opposition to the rule. Read more

Dr. Saad Jazrawi, president of the Portland Catholic Physicians Guild, holds daughter Samar, age 7 months, during a dinner following the annual White Mass for Catholic health care workers in 2019. “If I combine my faith and my work, I’m a better Catholic and a better physician,” said Jazrawi.

Local Catholic association supports physicians in their vocation

Founded in the 1950s, the Portland Catholic Physicians Guild ‘allows men and women of faith to share with courage and... Read more

Pope Francis on the popemobile kiss child in St. Peter's Square.

Pope Francis tells medical professionals to defend life

May 17, 2019

By Courtney Mares

Pope Francis Friday encouraged medical professionals to defend and promote life, highlighting the practice of conscientious objection in today’s healthcare... Read more

Detail from Giovanni Lanfranco's Saint Luke Healing the Dropsical Child (c. 1625)

Faith, science, beauty: what doctors can learn from Catholic art

Sep 19, 2017

By Kevin J. Jones

The intersection of art, medicine, and faith in the Catholic tradition has a lot to teach today, especially if you’re... Read more

In Ontario, legal assisted suicide could kill conscientious objection

Aug 18, 2017

By Kevin J. Jones

Conscience protections for Catholic hospitals and other organizations could soon come under fire in the Canadian province of Ontario, with... Read more

Archbishop Gomez: Christian doctors face increasing threats

Nov 2, 2016

Faithful Catholics need to be aware of the ever-increasing serious threats to Christians living their faith in the field of... Read more

Bishop James Conley of Lincoln spoke to the Catholic Medical Association's educational conference in Orlando, Sept. 28, 2014.

Bishop Conley to Catholics in medicine: strive to be saints

Sep 30, 2014

Catholic medical professionals can lead other people to God by dedicating themselves to holiness and following the examples of saintly... Read more

Pope Francis.

Pope Francis asks doctors to spread the Gospel of Life

Sep 20, 2013

By CNA Staff

Speaking to a group of gynecologists and obstetricians at the Vatican, Pope Francis affirmed that all human life has dignity... Read more