Making Sense of Bioethics: Column #229 : Embryo Adoption: An Open Question?

Key magisterial texts indicate that the practice of embryo transfer involves fundamentally unethical actions.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationNovember 28, 2025Informed Consent, Human Sexuality, Premarital Sex, Sex Education

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column #228 : Laws Providing Cover for Unethical Actions in Medicine

“Lawmakers ought not ‘provide legal cover in the form of “immunity from prosecution” for medical personnel who participate in various unethical practices.’’’

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationOctober 30, 2025Informed Consent, Human Sexuality, Premarital Sex, Sex Education

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column # 221 : Catholic Hospitals and “Gender Reassignment” for Minors?

Catholic hospitals may never condone or participate in... the range of practices coming under the heading of “gender transition.” This is especially important when these involve offering puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, "top surgeries" and "bottom surgeries” to children and young people.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationOctober 30, 2024Bodily Enhancement-Mutilation, Cooperation in Evil, Human Sexuality, Imposing Our Beliefs, Medical Profession — Ethics and Pastoral-Spiritual, Gender Identity and Being Transgender

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column #213 : Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria and the Tragic Seduction of Our Daughters

Sex touches us at a deeper level than other activities, binding us to another. It speaks a language not of autonomy, but of communion and enduring self-gift.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationJune 30, 2023Human Sexuality, Sex Education, Gender Identity and Being Transgender, Bodily Enhancement-Mutilation

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 208 : Young Women Giving Themselves Away For Nothing

When young women immodestly display their feminine attributes and participate in pornography, they end up objectifying themselves, trivializing their sexuality, and harming their interpersonal relationships.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationJanuary 31, 2023Human Sexuality, Premarital Sex, Sex Education, Pornography, Universal Morality

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 197 : Eugenics, Forced Sterilization, and Protecting the Mentally-Challenged

...the solution should never be direct sterilization but tailored care that addresses their specific mental health situation...

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationNovember 30, 2021Human Sexuality, Birth Control and Contraception, Disabilities and the Disabled, Eugenics, Sterilization

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 195 : Sexual Atoms and Molecules

Sex touches us at a deeper level than other activities, binding us to another. It speaks a language not of autonomy, but of communion and enduring self-gift.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationSeptember 30, 2021Informed Consent, Human Sexuality, Premarital Sex, Sex Education

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 180: Language — Veiling or Unveiling Moral Truth?

The careful hijacking of language by purveyors of wrongdoing is a widely-deployed tactic in the battle for the soul of every culture.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationJune 30, 2020Human Sexuality, Imposing Our Beliefs, Natural Law, Universal Morality, Conscience, Bodily Enhancement-Mutilation, Medical Profession — Ethics and Pastoral-Spiritual

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 175: Christian Girls and Abortion

Mothers and fathers may have never discussed the possibility of an unplanned pregnancy to let their children know ahead of time that, even if they act contrary to their advice and conceive a child, they will still be there for them.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationJanuary 30, 2020Abortion, Human Sexuality, Parenting, Premarital Sex, Sex Education, Cooperation in Evil

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 166: Nobody Gets Hurt?

Yet the old adage that no man is an island rings perennially true. Grave harms to others, in fact, follow in the wake of the radical personal decision to ‘switch genders.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationApril 30, 2019Bodily Enhancement-Mutilation, Human Sexuality, Gender Identity and Being Transgender

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 160: Sexual Orientation: Hope for Restoration and Healing with SOCE

Robust and rigorous research studies find very notable improvements both in the ability to resist homosexual behaviors and in their sense of sexual re-orientation.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationOctober 30, 2018Human Sexuality, Homosexuality and Gay Marriage, Gender Identity and Being Transgender

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 155: Consenting to Sex

When it comes to ‘sex in the moment,’ consent is touted as key...

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationMay 30, 2018Human Sexuality, Premarital Sex, Sex Education

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 152: Sorting through "Solutions" to the HIV-AIDS Pandemic

STDs constitute a serious danger in an age where sexual behaviors are becoming ever more indiscriminate. STD outbreaks and pandemics often have their origins in unchaste behaviors and morally disordered forms of sexuality.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationFebruary 28, 2018Homosexuality and Gay Marriage, Human Sexuality, Premarital Sex, AIDS and HIV

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 150: The "Bitter Pill" of False Liberation

The Church’s ageless but countercultural teaching on contraception respects and uplifts women. It supports them in an authentic feminism that esteems their fruitfulness in marriage not as a defect, but as a real gift.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationDecember 30, 2017Human Sexuality, Sex Education, Birth Control and Contraception, Premarital Sex

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 147: Sex in Accord with Reason

The manner in which the [sexual] act takes place and the details surrounding it are essential to determining whether the act occurs in an authentically human way...

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationSeptember 30, 2017Homosexuality and Gay Marriage, Human Sexuality, Parenting, Sex Education, Masturbation, Gender Identity and Being Transgender

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 141: I'm Not "Intrinsically Disordered!"

Intrinsically disordered acts, while always destructive to ourselves and to others, do not put us outside of the eventual reach of grace and mercy...

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationMarch 30, 2017Homosexuality and Gay Marriage, Human Sexuality

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 139: Thinking Through the Temptation of Cohabitation

Sex, of course, has a certain power all its own, and both sides may be tempted to play with it in ways that are potentially damaging, all the more so when they decide to cohabit.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationJanuary 30, 2017Human Sexuality, Premarital Sex, Parenting

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 134: Talking to Kids About Porn & Human Sexuality

...the home setting needs to differ from the outside world, serving as an oasis and a protected environment for children.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationAugust 30, 2016Pornography, Parenting, Sex Education, Universal Morality, Human Sexuality

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 124: The Mystery of Male-Female Complementarity

The beauty and meaning of every sexual encounter in marriage, then, is rooted not only in faithful and exclusive love, but also in the radical complementarity of spouses manifested in the abiding mystery of their mutual procreativity.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationOctober 30, 2015Homosexuality and Gay Marriage, Human Sexuality, Marriage, Natural Law, Sex Education

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 105: Discrimination and Human Genital Sexuality

It remains the better part of wisdom to discriminate, in the moral sense of the term, between disordered uses of human sexuality and the ordered engagement of human sexuality within marriage.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationMarch 30, 2014Homosexuality and Gay Marriage, Human Sexuality, Gender Identity and Being Transgender

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