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Families are touched as more people donate organs
- Associated Press, Church in the US
- May 31, 2017
Nearly 118,000 people in the United States are waiting for a transplant, and more than 20 people die every day waiting for a suitable organ. The odds are long for most who are awaiting organs. Each year, the number of people on the waiting list grows, while only about 2 percent of donated organs can be used. Pope Francis has called the act of organ donation “a testimony of love for our neighbor.”
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Most important and costliest medicine? Love, pope tells patients
- Catholic News Service, Vatican
- Apr 11, 2017
Speaking to patients, their family members, and medical personnel from the Vatican-owned Bambino Gesu children’s hospital in Rome, Pope Francis warned of “the risk of forgetting the most important medicine only a family can give — caresses.”
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Should a head transplant be allowed to happen?
- Interviews
- Mar 30, 2017
As proposed new medical procedures enter into what looks like science fiction, are ethical concerns being properly taken into account? The latest controversy is over a surgeon who wants to transplant an entire human head.
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Religious freedom in medicine at stake in 2016, Catholic docs say

“People have to realize that Americans of all stripes, regardless of their religious affiliation, that we are losing our religious freedom … at amazing speed,” said Louis Brown, director of the Christ Medicus Foundation at the Catholic Information Center in Washington, D.C.

Pope Francis, MD, uses medical metaphors to provoke and explain

Pope Francis knows how to use metaphors to make his points, and in the fall of 2016, he seems to be especially fond of images drawn from the field of medicine, beginning with his famous description of the Catholic Church as the “field hospital” for a wounded humanity.