Can Catholics Donate Their Organs? Here’s What the Church Says
The Catholic Church states that organ donation is an acceptable and even morally laudable practice.
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Opinion: Catholics Should Not Be ‘Brain Death’ Organ Donors
COMMENTARY: The April 11 statement by The National Catholic Bioethics Center affirms that ‘a partial brain death standard can never be acceptable to Catholics.’
What Every Catholic Should Really Know About Brain Death
COMMENTARY: It is vitally important for scholars to continue deliberating the validity of the neurological criterion to inform the Catholic magisterium’s discernment of whether what they learn of brain death continues to cohere with the Church’s traditional understanding of the nature of the human person.
Poor Clare Nuns Witness to ‘Everyday Heroism’ of Living Organ Donors
One gave a kidney, while the other received the necessary body part.
Brain Death: What Catholics Need to Know
COMMENTARY: People of good will in and out of the medical community should support medical research seeking innovative, morally uncontentious ways to replace failing organs.
Bishops Respond to England's New ‘Opt Out’ Organ Donation System
Under the new law, which came into force May 20, all adults will be regarded as donors unless they have recorded a decision to opt out or belong to one of the excluded groups.
Doctors Push to Allow Death by Organ Donation
A recent study claims the majority of Americans would support ditching the ‘dead-donor rule’ for organ extraction.
