Bioethics

Oxford bioethicist rebukes ruling against dying UK teen’s ability to choose life-supporting treatment

09/11/2023 at 8:55 PM By Kevin Edward White
The teenager's wish to continue treatment 'is being seen as a reason to deny her dignity as a mentally capable adult. This is a lethal form of paternalism,' says bioethicist Professor David Albert Jones, director of The Anscombe Bioethics Centre. By Frank Wright, LifeSite News, September 7,... read more

Many faith leaders wary of religious exemptions for vaccine

02/18/2022 at 3:14 PM By Kevin Edward White
By David Crary and Peter Smith, AP, February 12, 2022 Although some Americans have been seeking religious exemptions in order to circumvent COVID-19 vaccine mandates, Francis has defended the vaccines as “the most reasonable solution to the pandemic.” By the thousands, Americans have... read more

Weekly COVID-19 testing a ‘good’ alternative to vaccine mandate, bioethicist says

09/22/2021 at 6:49 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency, September 16, 2021 As the Biden administration prepares to require COVID-19 vaccinations at many workplaces, a Catholic bioethicist urged the administration to keep an alternative to vaccinations in place – weekly testing. Last Thursday, President Joe... read more

Catholic bioethics center praises Wisconsin bishops for respecting conscience on vaccine mandates

08/25/2021 at 10:12 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency, August 24, 2021 The National Catholic Bioethics Center on Monday praised the bishops of Wisconsin for their statement supporting conscience exemptions to COVID-19 vaccine mandates. “We applaud the Wisconsin Catholic Conference for its defense of the... read more

Embryo tinkering is back

03/28/2021 at 4:44 PM By Kevin Edward White
What is the moral cost and where is this taking us as a community?by Archbishop Anthony Fisher, (Sydney), Mercatur, March 22, 2021 Last week the media celebrated the achievement, by Monash University scientists, of so-called “model human embryos” or “artificial human embryos”. There was... read more

AS COVID-19 HIT, THE WORLD LET ITS ELDERLY DIE: Warnings had piled up for years that nursing homes were vulnerable. The pandemic sent them to the back of the line for equipment and care.

07/26/2020 at 9:47 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Matina Stevis-Gridneff, Matt Apuzzo and Monika Pronczuk, NYT, Aug. 8, 2020 Warnings had piled up for years that nursing homes were vulnerable. The pandemic sent them to the back of the line for equipment and care. BRUSSELS — Shirley Doyen was exhausted. The Christalain nursing... read more

The Decline and Fall of Catholic Moral Theology

02/06/2020 at 10:10 AM By Kevin Edward White
By David Mitchell, One Pter Five, February 3, 2020 The Catholic Church has a moral teaching. Everybody knows this, and it is on account of her moral teaching that people who do not wish to believe that the Catholic Church is the true religion, and who do not wish to believe that they have a... read more

Physical Interventions on the Bodies of Children to “Affirm” their “Gender Identity” Violate Sound Medical Ethics and Should be Prohibited

12/10/2019 at 2:53 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Ryan T. Anderson and Robert P. George, The Public Discourse, December 8, 2019 Rather than teaching children to identify based on how well they fit prevailing cultural expectations on sex, we should be teaching them that the truth of their sexual identity is based on their bodies, and that... read more

Founding prof laments ‘destruction’ of John Paul II Institute

09/03/2019 at 9:15 AM By Kevin Edward White
[Editor’s note: The following is an English translation of the “Public Statement Concerning the Turmoil Surrounding the Pope John Paul II Institute for the Family in Rome,” released on August 28.] Addressed to: Archbishop Vincenco Paglia, Great Chancellor of the InstituteMsgr.... read more

Argentina’s Anti-Abortion Wave

08/16/2019 at 2:00 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Carlos Caso-Rosendi, Catholic Thing, August 14, 2019 Over the weekend, the eclectic political coalition currently in power in Argentina suffered a massive defeat to a resurgent progressive wing of the Peronist party. If the Peronists win the final round of elections in October, they will... read more
Human embryonic stem cells

NIH Announces Details of Human Fetal Tissue Research Restrictions

08/01/2019 at 8:38 AM By Kevin Edward White
The latest restrictions require scientists to submit more comprehensive grant applications, and those applications will go through more stringent ethics reviews. By Ashley Yeager, The Scientist, July 29, 2019 Last Friday (July 26), the National Institutes of Health announced new... read more

Joseph Meaney, Ph.D., Named President of The National Catholic Bioethics Center

06/17/2019 at 11:14 AM By Kevin Edward White