#Bioethics

Dignitas Infinita: “The dignity of the human person is a universal truth that we are all called to recognise”

From war to poverty, from violence against migrants to violence against women, from abortion to surrogacy to euthanasia, from gender…

The Pope reminds us that the actions and choices of each have consequences for peace and the perception of human dignity

At a time of escalating conflicts and ethical challenges, the words of Pope Francis in his address to the Diplomatic…

EU: COMECE and Katholisches Büro in Berlin on “SoHO Regulation”, it creates “an unacceptable equivalence between embryos and foetuses and simple skin cells or blood plasma”

Surrogacy. Armeni: “Not freedom but exploitation”

Forget freedom of choice and altruism. For journalist and writer Ritanna Armeni, surrogacy is an unacceptable form of exploitation of…

Surrogate motherhood. Di Nicola: “A complex question reduced to a slogan”

Di Nicola (sociologist) comments on surrogate motherhood: “What is most disturbing is that these issues are being reduced to slogans…

End of life. Iannone (Fatebenefratelli): “Conscience prevails over law because life is at the heart of civil coexistence”

The Legislative Decree concerning “Provisions on voluntary physician-assisted dying”, approved by the Chamber of Deputies on March 10, pending the…

COVID-19 vaccines: US Bishops, “gravity of pandemic and lack of alternative vaccines” are “sufficiently serious” reasons to authorize them

Bioethics. Holy See: “Euthanasia is an act of homicide”

The Letter Samaritanus bonus, drawn up by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, released today, reiterates a firm…

France: Mgr. Aupetit (Paris) on controversial revised bioethics bill. “Shameless Government”

USA: in hospitals, the utilitarian principle threatens the elderly and the disabled

Over the past few weeks President Trump evoked the spectre of a war against an invisible enemy, and while words…

Pope Francis: to Congregation for Doctrine of Faith, no to lives considered “unworthy” or “to be discarded”. “Society is civil if it develops antibodies against throwaway culture”