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​​Bioethicists scrutinize Pontifical Academy for Life’s new guidance on withdrawing food, water

August 16, 2024 Catholic News Agency 4

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CNA Staff, Aug 16, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA).
After the Pontifical Academy for Life (PAFL) last month issued a booklet summarizing the Church’s teaching on a number of bioethical issues, the section on “artificial nutrit… […]

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Pontifical Academy for Life releases ‘lexicon’ for end-of-life discussions

July 5, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life. / Credit: Walter Breitenmoser/CNA

CNA Staff, Jul 5, 2024 / 13:10 pm (CNA).
The Pontifical Academy for Life has released a guide that it says will help the faithful in dis… […]

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Pontifical Academy for Life is betraying its founder, JPII biographer George Weigel says

May 22, 2024 Catholic News Agency 2

George Weigel at the Angelicum in Rome, May 18, 2022. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA

ACI Prensa Staff, May 22, 2024 / 15:05 pm (CNA).
George Weigel, biographer of St. John Paul II, lamented that the Pontifical Academy for Life betrayed Dr. Jérôme … […]

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International Jérôme Lejeune bioethics conference highlights crucial life and health issues

May 20, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

The International Chair of Bioethics Jérôme Lejeune held its second annual international conference in Rome on May 17-18, 2024, to reflect on the bioethical challenges surrounding the health and care of people at different stages of life. / Cred… […]

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St. John Paul II and Jérôme Lejeune: Two lives at the service of life

May 18, 2024 George Weigel 4

Note: The following remarks were made at the II International Bioethics Conference, in Rome, on May 18, 2024. Many of the participants in this conference are experts in the life and thought of a great […]

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Pope Francis: Technological development must promote the human being

February 13, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

Pope Francis meets with members of the Pontifical Academy for Life on Feb. 12, 2024, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

Rome Newsroom, Feb 13, 2024 / 09:30 am (CNA).
Pope Francis addressed members of the Pontifical Academy for Life at the … […]

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Pope names biochemist who contributed to COVID vaccine to Pontifical Academy for Life

February 12, 2024 Catholic News Agency 4

Nobel prize for medicine laureate Katalin Kariko speaks during the annual Nobel Symposium hosted by the Swedish Embassy at the House of Sweden in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14, 2023. / Credit: MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images

Washington, D.C. Ne… […]

The Dispatch

What is a Catholic’s obligation to democratically enacted pro-death laws?

May 15, 2023 John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. 15

Seeking to rescue Pontifical Academy for Life (PAV) President Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia from his remarks over assisted suicide, the neo-ultramontane papal positivists of “Where Peter Is” featured a discussion with Mike Lewis trying to spin […]

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Pontifical Academy for Life responds to outcry over Archbishop Paglia assisted suicide comments

April 24, 2023 Catholic News Agency 4

Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia. / Walter Breitenmoser/CNA

Rome, Italy, Apr 24, 2023 / 08:06 am (CNA).
The Pontifical Academy for Life said Monday its president is against assisted suicide but thinks it is possible to have a “legal initiative” that … […]

The Dispatch

BREAKING: Pontifical Academy of Life president calls medically assisted suicide ‘feasible’

April 23, 2023 Catholic News Agency 37

Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, grand chancellor of the Pontifical Institute John Paul II, speaks at a press conference. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 23, 2023 / 15:02 pm (CNA).
Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pon… […]

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