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Three Aspects of the Catholic Health Care Apostolate
This year, PA Week began on the 27th Monday in Ordinary Time in cycle 1 for weekday readings and ended on the 28th Sunday of Year C.[1] Given that Ordinary time shifts a bit based on the timing of Eastertide, liturgical cycles of readings, and the timing of PA Week, I was struck by the…
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Pray for Oral Arguments in Chiles v. Salazar
Imagine a 17-year-old who identifies as transgender is unsure that she wants to continue to be identified as such. She has a lot of questions about stopping her “gender-affirming” medical treatments. What if the first person she turns to for answers is you, her trusted primary care clinician? Or perhaps you work in pediatric psychiatry…
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The Fight for Restorative Reproductive Medicine
The Catholic Church morally opposes assisted reproductive technology (ART), which today is almost exclusively invitro fertilization (IVF) for a multitude of reasons. (See this excellent video by John A. DiCamillo, President of the National Catholic Bioethics Center). Among these reasons is the creation of “unwanted” embryos that remain indefinitely cryopreserved. According to the National Embryo…
