The Fall of Atlan
Brother Aran, Charles, and Azarias spent midsummer’s eve touring the piazzas and avenues...
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Tag: bioethics
Fr. Barron Comments on The Two Minus One Pregnancy
“…a couple of weeks ago, I read an article in the New York Times Sunday Magazine that was so outrageous and it was so egregious, that I just several time put the magazine down… just shook my head in...
Read More“A Healthy Person with a Sick Soul is Still a Sick Person”
“A Healthy Person with a Sick Soul is Still a Sick Person” – St. Giuseppe Moscati (1880-1927), “the holy physician of Naples” You are an orthopedic physician, the patient is a woman in her early 40’s who you are...
Read MoreFaith for Doctors, Means Faith For Us All
SEATTLE — If the Catholic Medical Association wins the battle on the frontlines in the war to preserve the culture of life, it will only happen when the rest of us better understand our faith. If we don’t understand it, then we...
Read MoreCan You be a Scientist and a Person of Faith?
SEATTLE — Traveling from England, Stratford Caldecott talked about the medical implications for Catholic physicians of protecting human dignity from the moment of conception until natural death in light of Fides et Ratio, the...
Read MoreWe are at War Between the Culture of Life and Death
SEATTLE — “Pope John Paul II was right, we are at war between the culture of life and the culture death,” said Dr. José-Maria Simon, President of the World Federation of the Catholic Medical Association. Dr. Simon is waging that...
Read MoreEvidence of God
SEATTLE — Some of the world’s leading theologians and philosophers presented thoughtful treatises to hundreds of physicians during the final two days of the 79th annual Catholic Medical Association education conference in...
Read MoreEuthanasia Cannot Be the End of Suffering
Why do we suffer? Can’t we just take a pill, or have a procedure, or, if we, or one of our loved ones are in terrible pain with no hope of recovering, just “compassionately” end life? And how does the Church really define...
Read MoreThe Practice of Medicine Cannot be Isolated from the Truth
“The Practice of Medicine Cannot be Isolated from the Truth!” An ICL Conversation with Dr. Theresa Deisher SEATTLE — The culture we live in is under assault. Nowhere are the battles more clearly drawn than in the world of...
Read MoreTo Be Human
SEATTLE — The opening session at the 79th annual Catholic Medical Association conference in Seattle was delivered by Dr. Josef Seifert and was entitled “Christian Anthropology, Connecting a Proper Anthropology with Proper...
Read MoreEthical Lines Being Drawn in Cloning Debate
SEATTLE — What does it mean to be human? It is an age-old question. The Discovery Institute played host to a discussion of what it means to be human as a prelude to the 79th annual educational conference now underway in Seattle...
Read MoreCatholic Physicians Gather in Seattle
SEATTLE — I am covering this week’s 79th Annual Educational Conference of the Catholic Medical Association in Seattle. The theme of the conference is “Restoring the Integrity of Medicine: An Imperative for a...
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