Making Sense of Bioethics: Column # 221 : Catholic Hospitals and “Gender Reassignment” for Minors?

Catholic hospitals may never condone or participate in... the range of practices coming under the heading of “gender transition.” This is especially important when these involve offering puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, "top surgeries" and "bottom surgeries” to children and young people.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationOctober 30, 2024Bodily Enhancement-Mutilation, Cooperation in Evil, Human Sexuality, Imposing Our Beliefs, Medical Profession — Ethics and Pastoral-Spiritual, Gender Identity and Being Transgender

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column #215 : The Ethics of Neuroimplants and Brain-Computer Interfaces

Brain-Computer Interfaces could offer important medical and therapeutic uses in the future, they also are poised for dubious or clearly immoral uses.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationOctober 24, 2023Bodily Enhancement-Mutilation, Disabilities and the Disabled, Research

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column #213 : Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria and the Tragic Seduction of Our Daughters

Sex touches us at a deeper level than other activities, binding us to another. It speaks a language not of autonomy, but of communion and enduring self-gift.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationJune 30, 2023Human Sexuality, Sex Education, Gender Identity and Being Transgender, Bodily Enhancement-Mutilation

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 191 : Challenging the Establishment on Childhood Gender Transitions

Vulnerable young people, caught up in the pressure of the moment, have too easily been drawn into life-altering pathways involving medications and scalpels with their frequently irreversible effects.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationMay 28, 2021Bodily Enhancement-Mutilation, Medical Profession — Ethics and Pastoral-Spiritual, Parenting, Gender Identity and Being Transgender, Universal Morality

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 180: Language — Veiling or Unveiling Moral Truth?

The careful hijacking of language by purveyors of wrongdoing is a widely-deployed tactic in the battle for the soul of every culture.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationJune 30, 2020Human Sexuality, Imposing Our Beliefs, Natural Law, Universal Morality, Conscience, Bodily Enhancement-Mutilation, Medical Profession — Ethics and Pastoral-Spiritual

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 166: Nobody Gets Hurt?

Yet the old adage that no man is an island rings perennially true. Grave harms to others, in fact, follow in the wake of the radical personal decision to ‘switch genders.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationApril 30, 2019Bodily Enhancement-Mutilation, Human Sexuality, Gender Identity and Being Transgender

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 143: Doping Athletes

It seems fair to conclude that doping constitutes a form of cheating not only of one’s competitors, but also one's fans, oneself, and the integrity of the sporting activity itself.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationMay 30, 2017Addiction and Substance Abuse, Bodily Enhancement-Mutilation, Law and Ethics, Drug Abuse

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 121: Changing My Body To “Match” My “Identity?”

This kind of confused language about allowing people to “define their identity” ignores the crucially important truth that numerous aspects of our identity, especially those related to our bodily and sexual identity, are pre-determined, objective goods...

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationJuly 30, 2015Bodily Enhancement-Mutilation, Gender Identity and Being Transgender

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 116: Medical Assistance with the Battle of the Bulge

Some patients may have tried diligently for years to lose weight, while others may have made only cursory, poorly-supported efforts. The need for support is also likely to continue following bariatric surgery or after the implantation of a stomach pacemaker.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationFebruary 28, 2015Bodily Enhancement-Mutilation, Obesity

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 090: Taboos and Tattoos

…Questions about vanity lead to similar concerns about modesty. Modesty in its essential meaning involves the decision to not draw undue attention to ourselves.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationDecember 30, 2012Tattoos, Bodily Enhancement-Mutilation

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 069: "Drastic Measures" and Cancer Decisions

The real costs of this kind of surgery remind us of the importance of making a right and ethical decision for our circumstances. Although there is a heightened probability of disease, there is never any guarantee that a particular woman with the BRCA mutation will develop cancer.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationMarch 30, 2011Bodily Enhancement-Mutilation, Breast Cancer Treatment

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 034: Plastic Perfection? The Ethics of Breast Implants

The temptation to reduce feminine beauty to a kind of plastic and exterior measure is surely a failure to realize how a woman's physical beauty is meant to be but a gentle hint, a pointer towards an abiding beauty within.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationApril 30, 2008Bodily Enhancement-Mutilation, Breast Augmentation

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