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 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 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 074: Bringing Christ to the Clinic

The physician's boldness and unflagging concern for his patient played an important role in bringing Christ into a situation where His healing graces were needed, where even the priest alone probably could not have succeeded.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationAugust 30, 2011Medical Profession — Ethics and Pastoral-Spiritual, Caring for the Elderly and Infirm, Death and Dying, Sacraments, End-of-Life Issues

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 057: Facing Death in Solidarity and Hope

Fostering a humanly enriching environment for those facing death often means giving explicit attention to human presence and human contact, even in the midst of a plethora of technology that may surround a patient.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationMarch 30, 2010Suffering, Caring for the Elderly and Infirm, Death and Dying, Artificial Nutrition and Hydration, Medical Profession — Ethics and Pastoral-Spiritual, End-of-Life Issues, Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 055: Medicine and the True Cost of Being in Denial

The danger of breast cancer from induced abortion constitutes a serious health risk, and women deserve to be fully and properly informed about it. The failure to inform them on the part of the medical establishment and on the part of various cancer watchdog groups is noteworthy and troubling.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationJanuary 30, 2010Abortion, Medical Profession — Ethics and Pastoral-Spiritual, Catholic Health Care

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 032: When Ideology Corrupts Science and Medicine

Codes of medical ethics like the Hippocratic Oath, the Nuremberg Code, and the Declaration of Helsinki came into existence after various misguided ideologies gained a foothold, or after the medical establishment suffered a core meltdown, allowing doctors and researchers to participate in crimes against humanity.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationFebruary 29, 2008Medical Profession — Ethics and Pastoral-Spiritual, Science and Religion, Abortion, Conscience, Conscience and Civil Liberties

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 027: True Compassion in the Midst of Tragedy

The truly compassionate doctor will humbly recognize that even his most powerful tools and treatments will not be able to stave off death in every case. At certain times, he will have to step aside as the shadow of death draws near and the mortal existence of the person he has been caring for comes to its natural close.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationSeptember 30, 2007Animal- Human Similarities and Divergences, Medical Profession — Ethics and Pastoral-Spiritual, Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

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