health care

“Healthcare must be accessible to the most vulnerable … because their dignity requires it but also to prevent injustice from becoming a cause of conflict.”

President Donald Trump’s nomination of Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., to lead the Department of Homeland Security cleared a key Senate hurdle this week.

National pro-life group argued the policy should be “a minimum standard in the Republican Party.”

“We are all called to remember that health care is not simply a business; it is a vocation, a mission that is grounded in the dignity of every human person.”

The new clinic has two new examination rooms “fitted with state-of-the-art instruments, as well as a new radiology service,” the dicastery said.

A funding deal in the Senate signaled the end to the government shutdown, but Catholic groups expressed concern about the fate of health insurance subsidies.

The document on ethical standards for health care in light of church teaching is an authoritative guidance on moral issues encountered by Catholic health care.

“It is a forgotten war because the people are really forgotten,” said Italian Bishop Christian Carlassare of Bentiu in neighboring South Sudan.

The U.S. government statistics that from 2005 to 2023, 146 rural hospitals closed or stopped providing inpatient services. Of that 146, 81 shut down completely.

The USCCB said Oct. 22 that the public session will feature “discussion and response to the evolving situation impacting migrants and refugees.”