| Father Albert Moraczewski, O.P. founding president of The National Catholic Bioethics Center, was honored at the reception held at St. Katharine's Hall on the evening of November 30. Many bishops, friends and former associates made contributions to the NCBC in Father Albert's honor, and the library was dedicated to him in thanksgiving for his many years of generous service to the Church as a scholar, bioethical researcher; and for more than fifty years as a priest. Houston artist James Seigler, in attendance with his wife Ellen, painted a portrait of Father Albert that will hang in the entrance foyer of St. Katharine's Hall just outside the library. It was Father Albert's initiative and foresight that spawned the beginning of the Pope John XXIII Medical Moral Research and Education Center in St. Louis, MO in 1972. The Center later moved to Boston, changed its name to The National Catholic Bioethics Center in 1998, and relocated to Philadelphia into its permanent home in September of 2004. |
Cardinal Justin Rigali, Archbishop of Philadelphia, offers his congratulations and thanks to Father Albert |
