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LETTING OUR LOVED ONES GO HOME to GOD

October 28, 2018 Fr. Hyacinth

The Catholic Church opposes euthanasia, understood as the deliberate killing of a person in order to end his or her…

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Posted in: Ethics Filed under: Death and dying, Human agency, Human dignity

THE ETHICS of BEGINNING-OF-LIFE HEALTH CARE, PART IV: KILLING for the PURPOSES of MEDICINE

July 22, 2018 Fr. Hyacinth

We are once again considering the wrongfulness of direct abortion and, more generally, the deliberate killing of human beings in…

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Posted in: Ethics, Healthcare Filed under: Beginning of life health care, Human agency, Human dignity

THE ETHICS of BEGINNING-OF-LIFE HEALTH CARE, PART III: ABORTION in TRAUMATIC CIRCUMSTANCES

July 15, 2018 Fr. Hyacinth

A direct abortion is an abortion that is deliberately chosen and is always morally wrong. It is morally wrong because…

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Posted in: Ethics, Healthcare Filed under: Beginning of life health care, Human agency, Human dignity

THE ETHICS of BEGINNING-OF-LIFE HEALTH CARE, PART II: THE WRONGFULNESS of DIRECT ABORTION

July 8, 2018 Fr. Hyacinth

Human life is a precious gift from Godwho made man and woman in His own image and likeness. The human…

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Posted in: Ethics, Healthcare Filed under: Beginning of life health care, Church teaching, Human agency, Human dignity

THE ETHICS of END-OF-LIFE HEALTH CARE, PART II: CHOOSING LIFE and ACCEPTING DEATH

February 18, 2018 Fr. Hyacinth

I have set before you life and death . . . Choose life (Deuteronomy 30:19). With these words, Moses exhorts God’s…

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Posted in: Ethics, Healthcare Filed under: End of life health care, Human agency, Human dignity

THE DIGNITY of the HUMAN PERSON in HEALTH CARE: the PATIENT as AGENT

November 19, 2017 Fr. Hyacinth

We often use the word “patient” when speaking of men and women who are receiving medical care without giving much…

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Posted in: Healthcare Filed under: Human agency, Human dignity, Spirituality

HUMAN CONSCIENCE and PATIENT AUTONOMY

April 30, 2017 Fr. Hyacinth

Conscience, according to Saint Thomas Aquinas, is the act of the human intellect by which “we judge that something should…

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Posted in: Ethics Filed under: Church teaching, Human agency, Human dignity, St. Thomas Aquinas

COOPERATION with EVIL

December 18, 2016 Fr. Hyacinth

To “cooperate with evil” sounds like a horrible thing to do—and it can be. But some cooperation with evil is…

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Posted in: Ethics Filed under: Church teaching, Human agency

ETHICS as RESTORING the IMAGE of GOD

October 30, 2016 Fr. Hyacinth

Saint Thomas Aquinas, in his great Summa Theologica, begins his treatment of ethics with the Christian understanding that human beings…

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Posted in: Ethics Filed under: Human agency, Human dignity, St. Thomas Aquinas

DOING GOOD while PERMITTING EVIL

October 23, 2016 Fr. Hyacinth

For human beings, doing good means choosing a good moral object for the sake of a good end. If a…

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Posted in: Ethics Filed under: Human agency, St. Thomas Aquinas

DOING GOOD and AVOIDING EVIL

October 16, 2016 Fr. Hyacinth

Good is to be done and pursued, and evil is to be avoided. This is the first principle of ethical…

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Posted in: Ethics Filed under: Human agency, St. Thomas Aquinas

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