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Health & Health Care

Health care, the sick, pandemics and medical professionals.

Also called healthcare, pandemic, COVID-19.

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1960s

  1. Closing Message to the Poor, the Sick and the Suffering8 December 1965Closing Message of the Council to the Poor, Sick and SufferingPope

1970s

  1. Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Facilities†November 1971Ethical and Religious Directives (1st ed.)Bishops' Conferences
  2. Ordo Unctionis Infirmorum eorumque Pastoralis Curae7 December 1972Pastoral Care of the Sick (editio typica)Roman Curia
  3. Quaecumque sterilizatio13 March 1975Reply on sterilization in Catholic hospitalsRoman Curia

1980s

  1. Dolentium Hominum11 February 1985Establishing the Pontifical Commission for Health Care WorkersPope

1990s

  1. Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (revised)†November 1994Ethical and Religious Directives (1994 rev.)Bishops' Conferences
  2. Charter for Health Care Workers†1 January 1995Charter for Health Care Workers (1995)Roman Curia

2000s

  1. Dignifying the Divine Image7 November 2006ILC Cape Town Statement on Health Care and HIV/AIDSEcumenical & Interreligious Dialogue

2010s

  1. New Charter for Health Care Workers†2016New Charter for Health Care WorkersRoman Curia
  2. Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (6th ed.)June 2018Ethical and Religious Directives (6th ed.)Bishops' Conferences

2020s

  1. That They Might Have Life10 November 2023That They Might Have Life (on marijuana and drug culture)Diocesan Bishops
  2. Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (7th ed.)12 November 2025Ethical and Religious Directives (7th ed.)Bishops' Conferences
  3. The Divine Physician and a Christian Approach to Mental Health and Wellbeing19 January 2026The Divine Physician (on mental health)Diocesan Bishops
  4. Samaritanus bonus14 July 2020Letter on the Care of Persons in the Critical and Terminal Phases of LifeRoman Curia
  5. Catechesis on Healing the World5 August 2020 – 30 September 2020Social doctrine and the theological virtues in light of the pandemic, 2020Pope
  6. Note on the morality of using some anti-Covid-19 vaccines21 December 2020Note on Anti-Covid-19 VaccinesRoman Curia