#Bioethics

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”

France: Bishops on revision of bioethics law in Senate, “no human being can treat another as an object”