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.

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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 #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.

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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 210 : Suicidal Fears and Authentic Accompaniment

We need to care for them in a more truthful way — accompanying, supporting, and helping them to address underlying issues — so they can begin to find real healing.

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Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationMarch 31, 2023Gender Identity and Being Transgender, Parenting, Suffering

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.

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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 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.

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

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 160: Sexual Orientation: Hope for Restoration and Healing with SOCE

Robust and rigorous research studies find very notable improvements both in the ability to resist homosexual behaviors and in their sense of sexual re-orientation.

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Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationOctober 30, 2018Human Sexuality, Homosexuality and Gay Marriage, Gender Identity and Being Transgender

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 157: Promethean Medical Temptations

Today, as modern medicine tries to rebuff death and control our humanity in ever more sophisticated ways, new temptations arise...

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Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationJuly 30, 2018Abortion, End-of-Life Issues, In Vitro Fertilization, Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia, Research, Gender Identity and Being Transgender

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 147: Sex in Accord with Reason

The manner in which the [sexual] act takes place and the details surrounding it are essential to determining whether the act occurs in an authentically human way...

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Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationSeptember 30, 2017Homosexuality and Gay Marriage, Human Sexuality, Parenting, Sex Education, Masturbation, Gender Identity and Being Transgender

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...

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

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 114: Are Womb Transplants Immoral?

…the specific circumstances of both the donor and recipient are crucial in discerning the ethical appropriate-ness of this unusual procedure.

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Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationDecember 30, 2014Womb Transplants, Gender Identity and Being Transgender

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 105: Discrimination and Human Genital Sexuality

It remains the better part of wisdom to discriminate, in the moral sense of the term, between disordered uses of human sexuality and the ordered engagement of human sexuality within marriage.

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Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationMarch 30, 2014Homosexuality and Gay Marriage, Human Sexuality, Gender Identity and Being Transgender

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