Father Tad Pacholczyk, Director of Education at the NCBC, is the author of a column called Making Sense out of Bioethics that appears in various diocesan newspapers across the country.   After earning a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Yale University, Fr. Tad did post-doctoral research at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. He subsequently studied in Rome where he did advanced studies in theology and in bioethics.

We are now making these articles available here at our website. Please share the link to this page with others that you know would benefit from Fr. Tad's concise explanations of the Church's position on these crucial issues.

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• June 1, 2009 - What Should We Do with the Frozen Embryos?
• May 1, 2009 - Thinking About Moral Absolutes
• April 1, 2009 - The Obama Stem Cell Darkness
• March 1, 2009 - Caught in the Crossfire of Parental Desires
• February 1, 2009 - Verbal Engineering and the Swaying of Public Conscience
• January 1, 2009 - “A Future Pregnancy Would Be Too Risky…”
• December 1, 2008 - Germany and Italy Have Done It — Shouldn’t We?
• November 1, 2008 - Making Truthful Choices of Conscience
• October 1, 2008 - Are Science and Religion Really Enemies?
• September 1, 2008 - Voting To Make A Difference
• August 1, 2008 - Sex and Little Pills: Viagra and Birth Control
• July 1, 2008 - "Safe Injection Sites" and Tackling IV Drug Abuse
• June 1, 2008 - Half Human, Half Animal?
• May 1, 2008 - Fire In the Clinic!
• April 1, 2008 - Plastic Perfection? The Ethics of Breast Implants
• March 1, 2008 - Do Embryos Have Souls?
• February 1, 2008 - When Ideology Corrupts Science and Medicine
• January 1, 2008 - Feeding Our Loved Ones: The Modern Anathema of Living With Brain Damage
• December 1, 2007 - The Holy Grail of Reprogramming: A New Era for Stem Cells?
• November 1, 2007 - Getting It Right “The Morning-After”
• October 1, 2007 - Soulless Clones and Spineless Men
• September 1, 2007 - True Compassion in the Midst of Tragedy
• August 1, 2007 - Ethical Blind Spots
• July 1, 2007 - Contraceptive Contradictions
• June 1, 2007 - Debating the Embryo's Fate
• May 1, 2007 - Acorns and Embryos
• April 1, 2007 - Recapturing the Soul of Bioethics
• March 1, 2007 - Thinking about Sex and Marital Surrender
• February 1, 2007 - Should I Have a Living Will?
• January 1, 2007 - Sexual Assault and Abortion
• December 1, 2006 - Are Feeding Tubes Required?
• November 1, 2006 - Bodies in Plastic
• October 1, 2006 - "Animal Rights" vs. Human Rights
• September 1, 2006 - Guilt-Free Pluripotent Stem Cells?
• August 1, 2006 - Temptations in Prenatal Testing
• July 1, 2006 - Thawing the Frozen Embryo Myths
• June 1, 2006 - Conundrum With Condoms
• May 1, 2006 - Fetal Farming and the New Slavery
• April 1, 2006 - "Sperm for Sale"
• March 1, 2006 - "No Tubes for Me"
• February 1, 2006 - Theology or Embryology?
• January 1, 2006 - A Spectacular Stem Cell Scandal
• December 1, 2005 - Babies in Test Tubes
• November 1, 2005 - Brain Dead Means Dead
• October 1, 2005 - A Painful Presumption
• September 1, 2005 - "Imposing Our Beliefs" on Others
• August 1, 2005 - The Morality of Vaccinating our Children
• July 1, 2005 - Stem Cells without Embryos