Pope Francis Warns of ‘Planetary Crisis’ in Message to Vatican’s Academy for Life
The Pope said hope is of fundamental importance.
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Bioethicists Scrutinize Pontifical Academy for Life’s New Guidance on Withdrawing Food, Water
In the English-speaking world, the booklet has garnered scrutiny for appearing to soften the Church’s stance on the importance of providing food and water to patients in a vegetative state.
Pontifical Academy for Life Releases ‘Lexicon’ for End-of-Life Discussions
The Catholic Church in recent years has taken strong stances against government policies such as euthanasia that devalue human life.
Catholic Doctors, Ethicists Criticize Pontifical Academy for Life Book
The authors highlighted lack of understanding of ‘current science’ and specific areas of medicine and recommended that the academy consult with Catholic medical associations to assist with future texts that provide moral guidance on Catholic medical practice and ethics issues.
Pontifical Academy for Life is Betraying its founder, JPII Biographer George Weigel Says
Weigel made the charge last week in his talk titled “St. John Paul II and Jérôme Lejeune: Two Lives at the Service of Life,” given as part of the second International Conference on Bioethics in Rome from May 17–18 in the Eternal City.
Pope Names Biochemist Who Contributed to COVID Vaccine to Pontifical Academy for Life
Katalin Karikó received the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her work to develop mRNA technology.
Bioethicist Luke Gormally: The ‘Gentle Giant’ Who Stood Up Against the Culture of Death
Gormally, who died at the end of April, was a towering pro-life figure in the English-speaking world for over half a century.
Paglia Prioritizes Political Pragmatism Over Prophetic Witness
COMMENTARY: As has been the case before, the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life often begins with the political situation and then sees where the Gospel and the Catholic Tradition can fit.
Pope Francis Asks Pontifical Academy for Life to Study Ethics of Emerging Technologies
Pope Francis told the Pontifical Academy for Life on Monday that it faces an enormous task in evaluating the ethics of emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and human enhancement.
John Finnis to Pontifical Academy for Life: Church’s Infallible Teaching Against Contraception Is ‘Certainly True’
The renowned professor of natural law spoke last month at a Rome conference, convened in response to a recent Pontifical Academy for Life publication that challenged this teaching.
