Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 171: Palliative Sedation While Approaching Death

When we find ourselves nailed to our hospital bed, it can become an important personal moment for us to engage the possibility of a spiritual transformation opening before us.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationSeptember 30, 2019Caring for the Elderly and Infirm, Death and Dying, Pain Management-Palliative Care and Hospice, Proportionate and Disproportionate Means, Suffering, End-of-Life Issues

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 170: Contradictory Suicide Messaging

The moral outrage and public reaction to Michelle’s behavior reveals a striking irony at the heart of Conrad’s suicide, namely, that similar indignation about encouraging someone to commit suicide is almost entirely absent when it comes to “physician-assisted” suicide.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationAugust 30, 2019Law and Ethics, Suffering, Universal Morality, Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 169: An Authentic Democracy

Even as we benefit from the blessings of liberty, we can fall prey to erroneous conceptions about the meaning of freedom, as the rights of some begin to be subtly elevated over the rights of others.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationJuly 30, 2019Abortion, Imposing Our Beliefs, Law and Ethics, Voting and Ethics

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 168: Securing Authentic Children's Rights

Notwithstanding rapidly changing social mores, a truly civilized society will never prioritize the desires of adults ahead of the innate rights of vulnerable children.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationJune 30, 2019Artificial Insemination, In Vitro Fertilization, Surrogacy, Parenting, Same Sex Parenting

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 167: The Corpse Raiders

When it comes to extracting cells or organs from the corpse of a deceased child at an abortion clinic, however, these ethical requirements for consent cannot legitimately be satisfied.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationMay 30, 2019Abortion, Fetal Tissue Harvesting, Informed Consent, Organ Donation

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 165: It’s Not Just About the Frozen Embryos

Through IVF, husband and wife use their own (or even another person’s) sex cells to become “donors”, while constructing their own offspring through a kind of programmed project, with the marital act no longer an essential part of the equation.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationMarch 30, 2019Embryos, Frozen Embryos, In Vitro Fertilization, Infertility

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 164: “Exceptions” and the Undermining of the Moral Law

Encouraging exceptions is the entry point into a broader repudiation of our moral duties towards each other, the first of which is the duty to respect the inviolability of each other’s life.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationFebruary 28, 2019Abortion, Law and Ethics, Universal Morality

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 163: The Welcome Outreach of Perinatal Hospice

This approach seeks to set up a particular supportive environment in which all the members of the family can receive the child following delivery, hold and name the newborn, and fully acknowledge his or her brief but meaningful life.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationJanuary 30, 2019Abortion, Death and Dying, Prenatal Testing, Pain Management-Palliative Care and Hospice, Disabilities and the Disabled, End-of-Life Issues, Pregnancy Complications

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 162: Gene-Edited Babies and the Runaway Train of IVF

Should JK's human gene editing work be condemned and should he be branded as a rogue scientist violating significant moral boundaries? The answer will, in fact, be linked to whether we understand IVF to be ethical or not…

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationDecember 30, 2018Genetics and Genome Editing, In Vitro Fertilization, Research

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 161: Abortion Funding — Cutting off the Blood Supply

Approximately half a billion dollars of taxpayer money is received annually by Planned Parenthood, the largest provider of ‘pregnancy terminations’ in the United States.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationNovember 30, 2018Abortion, Imposing Our Beliefs, Law and Ethics, Universal Morality, Voting and Ethics

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 159: Opioids, Pain Management, and Addiction - Balancing Ethical Duties

Figuring out how to use these powerful pharmacological agents in an appropriate and ethical manner is urgent and imperative.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationSeptember 30, 2018Addiction and Substance Abuse, Pain Management-Palliative Care and Hospice, Drug Abuse

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 158: Can We Pay Others to Donate a Kidney

At the end of the day, we want people to become organ donors, not organ vendors.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationAugust 30, 2018Law and Ethics, Organ Donation

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 157: Promethean Medical Temptations

Today, as modern medicine tries to rebuff death and control our humanity in ever more sophisticated ways, new temptations arise...

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationJuly 30, 2018Abortion, End-of-Life Issues, In Vitro Fertilization, Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia, Research, Gender Identity and Being Transgender

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 156: The Smoke over Medical Marijuana

…medical marijuana seems to be receiving “special status” and is being “fast-tracked” for legalization, when it should instead be subject to the standard scientific verifications of the FDA approval process to assure its efficacy and safety.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationJune 30, 2018Addiction and Substance Abuse, Law and Ethics, Universal Morality, Voting and Ethics, Alternative Medicine, Drug Abuse

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 154: Cowboys, Infertility and Deeper Moral Questions

…we realize how the procreation of our own children is meant to involve a strict exclusivity between husband and wife.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationApril 30, 2018Artificial Insemination, Embryos, In Vitro Fertilization, Infertility, Parenting, Banking of Sperm and Eggs

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 153: The Wrong-Headedness of “Wrongful Birth” Lawsuits

At its core, the idea of a ‘wrongful birth’ claim is unreasonable and ethically incoherent.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationMarch 30, 2018Law and Ethics, Abortion, Parenting, Disabilities and the Disabled, Pregnancy Complications

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

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