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 #218 : The Most Serious Miscalculation of All?

In considering our own death, we may entertain a strong wish that there be no more sufferings on the other side, especially when it comes to justifying our decision to engage in physician-assisted suicide. Simply having such a wish, however, does not actually make it so.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationMay 23, 2024Death and Dying, End-of-Life Issues, Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia, Imposing Our Beliefs, Suffering, Universal Morality

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column #217 : Poking the Hornet’s Nest of IVF

IVF involves at least two major moral problems —the ‘collateral damage problem’ and the ‘intrinsic problem.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationMarch 29, 2024Artificial Insemination, Embryos, Frozen Embryos, Imposing Our Beliefs, Infertility, In Vitro Fertilization, Law and Ethics

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 211 : Setting a Moral Vision as Parents

Setting a moral vision for one's children can be a Herculean task requiring enormous dedication.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationApril 28, 2023Imposing Our Beliefs, Parenting, 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 174: The Foxes and the Henhouse

There are few, if any, ‘bottom lines’ when it comes to research ethics. The lines have become exceedingly flexible, if the price is right or if a particular political administration wants to redraw them.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationDecember 30, 2019Genetics and Genome Editing, Imposing Our Beliefs, Law and Ethics, Science and Religion, Universal Morality, Cooperation in Evil, Research

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 173: Medicine and a Sense of the Sacred

We need to attend carefully to the graced realities we regularly handle lest we end up squandering or losing our sense of the sacred.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationNovember 30, 2019Abortion, Caring for the Elderly and Infirm, Death and Dying, Disabilities and the Disabled, Imposing Our Beliefs, Universal Morality, Sacraments, Medical Profession — Ethics and Pastoral-Spiritual, Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 172: Pushing Back Against Evil

We need to recognize how God has entrusted to each of us a small garden that he asks us to tend.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationOctober 30, 2019Universal Morality, Cooperation in Evil, Conscience, Imposing Our Beliefs

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 169: An Authentic Democracy

Even as we benefit from the blessings of liberty, we can fall prey to erroneous conceptions about the meaning of freedom, as the rights of some begin to be subtly elevated over the rights of others.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationJuly 30, 2019Abortion, Imposing Our Beliefs, Law and Ethics, Voting and Ethics

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 161: Abortion Funding — Cutting off the Blood Supply

Approximately half a billion dollars of taxpayer money is received annually by Planned Parenthood, the largest provider of ‘pregnancy terminations’ in the United States.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationNovember 30, 2018Abortion, Imposing Our Beliefs, Law and Ethics, Universal Morality, Voting and Ethics

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 123: Jailed for Defending Marriage

Even so, various commentators have tried to insist that Ms. Davis was elected to serve as a government official, and should carry out the provisions of the law even if she might not agree with them. But this argument is flawed on at least four counts.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationSeptember 30, 2015Homosexuality and Gay Marriage, Marriage, Imposing Our Beliefs, Conscience and Civil Liberties

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 003: “Imposing Our Beliefs” on Others

Law is fundamentally about imposing somebody’s views on somebody else. Imposition is the name of the game. It is the very nature of law to impose particular views on people who don’t want to have those views imposed on them. Car thieves don’t want laws imposed on them which prohibit stealing.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationSeptember 30, 2005Imposing Our Beliefs, Science and Religion, Law and Ethics, Conscience

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