Clergy & Religious
If you are looking to contribute your spiritual insights and ethical guidance to help create a more personalistic approach to healthcare… Come join us!
Benefits of membership
Western medicine tends to use a reductionist model, focusing on organs, body systems, and clinical volume, sometimes to the detriment of the patient who is suffering. A personalistic approach demands that we integrate the medical, emotional, spiritual, social/communal, and “sense-making” dimensions of the human person in times of health and illness. We welcome your prayers, insights, encouragement, and instruction in Catholic faith and ethics. Learning about our trials and experiences can enrich your ability to give “real-life” examples that provide important context for your audiences.
Faith & Fellowship
We stick together! We are an immunization against isolation and burnout in today's secular health care environments. We work, pray and play together through our Annual Picnic, St. Luke's Mass, learning,
collaborative online projects and community-based activities.
We are faithful to our vocations within health care and to the teachings of our One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Faith.
Education & Advocacy
The practice of medicine has become a "team sport." Guild members are able to network and learn together with Catholic colleagues within your own discipline or through interprofessional collaborations.
Individual mentoring relationships help clinicians develop confidence and skills that help them grow within their careers and tackle greater complexity within their work settings.
Our Guild sponsors workgroups focused on: celebrating and encouraging clinicians with young families; serving vulnerable populations; educating women about the care of their fertility; protecting patients in clinical research; and witnessing to our Catholic faith within the realm of health care policy.
Guiding the Future
We offer opportunities to mentor students in our professions-they are our hope for the future. We have a Speakers Bureau for students, so they can hear from clinicians with experience and/or expertise. We also have a small network of clinical preceptors who teach & supervise students during externships.
Our Guild also sponsors scholarships for health professional students to attend the annual CMA Bootcamp, a week-long conference featuring spiritual development, an immersion in Catholic bioethics, and opportunities for leadership, mentorship and networking.
Issues of Conscience
Through our partnership with the National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC), members have free access to the NCBC's online resources and individual consultation with a Catholic ethicist when needed. Free consultation with an attorney familiar with issues of moral and conscience rights in the healthcare workplace is available through the Alliance for Defending Freedom.
