Catholic Health Association of Manitoba

The sixth annual National Catholic Health Care Week will take place from Sunday, February 2 to Saturday, February 8, 2025.

National Catholic Health Care Week is a Week to:

  • Amplify our shared mission through a consistent, strong collective voice
  • Showcase our role, value, and impact in local communities and across the country
  • Demonstrate that we are people-centred, expert contributors to the health system
  • Engage our stakeholders in conversation about Catholic health care

Why February?

National Catholic Health Care Week leads into The World Day of the Sick on February 11, a Catholic day of observance established by Pope John Paul II to encourage prayers and reflections for those who are ill and for all those who care for them.

Caring for our Common Home

Our 2025 theme celebrates the interconnectedness of all creation and helps us to reflect on how our individual  and collective actions and our systems—health, social, economic—can promote a healthy world where all can thrive. It emphasizes the integral connection between human health and the health of the planet, echoing Pope Francis’ call to care for the earth as our common home (Laudato Si’).  We work with many partners—in our Catholic community, our health system and beyond—to contribute to and help shape an ever-evolving health system, drawing on our Catholic values, and a legacy of innovation and ethical reflection. As Catholic health we are committed to environmental stewardship and conservation and actions to promote human flourishing. This week calls us to put the love at the heart of our ministry into action and inspires us to work towards environmental sustainability and human health and wellbeing in our homes, workplaces, communities and our world. 

The Courageous Gift of Catholic Health Care

During National Catholic Health Care Week, we invite you to reflect on and share the story of the courageous gift of Catholic health care. As Catholic health organizations across Canada, we are united in a 400-year healing mission and are inspired by a calling to care for all with compassion and humanity—body, mind and spirit. We are driven to improve health care for all Canadians, especially those at greatest risk, as innovators, advocates and strong partners across our health care system. We are driven to make the world a better place, where everyone finds belonging, dignity and worth. In this, we reach out and take action with others to mend and bridge gaps, open doors and create the conditions for a society  where all are seen and heard.

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Thank you to everyone who joined us for the webinar, “Your Voice, Your Values: A Catholic Perspective on Advanced Care Planning and Health Directives,” held on February 4, 2025, as part of National Catholic Health Care Week.

Our speaker, Katarina Lee-Ameduri, Director of Ethics and Clinical Ethicist at St. Boniface Hospital and Réseau Compassion Network, delivered an insightful presentation on how Catholic values can guide health care planning and decision-making. Attendees gained valuable strategies and tools to support compassionate and faith-aligned care for themselves, their families, and their communities.

If you missed the live session or would like to share the webinar with others, the recorded video is now available.

 Watch the Webinar Recording Here

We hope this webinar helps foster ongoing discussions about faith, values, and health care. Thank you for your support and participation in National Catholic Health Care Week 2025!

 
 
 
 

Catholic Health Alliance of Canada has also created a set of five reflections for you to use each weekday during National Catholic Health Care Week, as a resource to open meetings or events and for discussion or learning. Click here to download.

They encourage prayerful reflection on aspects of our calling to be signs hope and healing and offer words of encouragement on the journey for those both needing or providing care. These Reflections and prayers help us explore our Catholic identity and tradition. The themes were drawn from Pope Francis’ call to Hope in FratelliTutti (54 and 55).