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LETTING OUR LOVED ONES GO HOME to GOD

The Catholic Church opposes euthanasia, understood as the deliberate killing of a person in order to end his or her suffering. We profess that all human life in endowed with dignity and value, whether healthy or sick, productive or disabled. Life is God’s gift to us and is ours to Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 4 yearsOctober 28, 2018 ago
Ethics

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

We are once again considering the wrongfulness of direct abortion and, more generally, the deliberate killing of human beings in the early stages of their development. We will recall that the term “abortion” refers to the death of an unborn child in the womb of his or her mother and Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 5 yearsJuly 22, 2018 ago
Ethics

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

A direct abortion is an abortion that is deliberately chosen and is always morally wrong. It is morally wrong because it is a kind of murder, an instance of deliberately killing an innocent human being. Since it is an instance of murder, direct abortion is in violation of the natural Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 5 yearsJuly 15, 2018 ago
Ethics

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

Human life is a precious gift from Godwho made man and woman in His own image and likeness. The human being has the dignity of being a person, not just a something but a someone, by virtue of possessing a rational and spiritual soul. Human life, which begins the moment Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 5 yearsJuly 8, 2018 ago
Ethics

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

I have set before you life and death . . . Choose life (Deuteronomy 30:19). With these words, Moses exhorts God’s people to follow God’s law and thereby receive His life-giving blessings. We might, however, take the liberty of reapplying these words in our consideration of health care ethics, where they Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 5 yearsFebruary 18, 2018 ago
Healthcare

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

We often use the word “patient” when speaking of men and women who are receiving medical care without giving much thought to what that word means. That is not necessarily a problem. The word “patient” is a helpful signifier in the context of health care. Everyone knows who is being Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 5 yearsNovember 19, 2017 ago
Ethics

HUMAN CONSCIENCE and PATIENT AUTONOMY

Conscience, according to Saint Thomas Aquinas, is the act of the human intellect by which “we judge that something should be done or not done.”1 This judgment is to be based on our knowledge of what is right and wrong for us to do, knowledge that we acquire both from Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 6 yearsApril 30, 2017 ago
Ethics

COOPERATION with EVIL

To “cooperate with evil” sounds like a horrible thing to do—and it can be. But some cooperation with evil is inevitable and unavoidable for almost everyone. The reason for this is that human beings are inherently social creatures. We live with, interact with, and depend on one another, and so Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 6 yearsDecember 18, 2016 ago
Ethics

ETHICS as RESTORING the IMAGE of GOD

Saint Thomas Aquinas, in his great Summa Theologica, begins his treatment of ethics with the Christian understanding that human beings are created in the image of God. Following Saint John Damascene, he observes that human beings image God most especially through having intelligence and free will. Saint Thomas teaches that Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 6 yearsOctober 30, 2016 ago
Ethics

DOING GOOD while PERMITTING EVIL

For human beings, doing good means choosing a good moral object for the sake of a good end. If a man chooses something morally bad as a means to achieving something morally good, his action is bad altogether. Likewise, if a man chooses something morally good as a means to Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 6 yearsOctober 23, 2016 ago
Ethics

DOING GOOD and AVOIDING EVIL

Good is to be done and pursued, and evil is to be avoided. This is the first principle of ethical human action as articulated by Saint Thomas Aquinas, who relies on the classical wisdom of Aristotle and represents much of the Catholic tradition (Summa TheologiaeI-II, q. 94, a. 2). In Read more…

By Fr. Jonah Pollock, 6 yearsOctober 16, 2016 ago
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