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Thinking Beyond (Bio)ethics
Gregorianum 2019 100/3. The article deals with «presuppositions» in the field of bioethics. It does so with a concern for questions of meaning, which bioethics tends to bracket, rather than address, on account of a tendency to reduce normative problems to the level of procedural rightness.
Requena P.
The principle of therapeutic prudence. Italian
Medicina e Morale 2019/2: 125-139. Italian with abstract in English.
Archbishop Paglia
Humana Communitas: a vision for the future
Milan - May 5 2019. Meeting at the Catholic University del Sacro Cuore.
Pope Francis
Humana Communitas
Letter to the Pontifical Academy for Life - February 11, 2019.

NEWS

Press Release - John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences

Replying to certain rumors and media comments dealing with the approval of the Program of Studies and Statutes ...

2020 Doctoral Dissertation Award on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & ETHICS Call for Applications

2020 Doctoral Dissertation Award on  ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & ETHICS Call for Applications  The ...

Save the NEW date. Workshop 2020 on Artificial Intelligence, February 26-27-28, 2020.

SAVE the NEW DATE. Workshop 2020 on Artificial Intelligence, February 26-27-28 2020. The Workshop will start ...

Biotechnology and Judaism

The bioethical debate on the boundary between what is technically possible and what is conductively ...

Persons with vulnerability: decision making and consent in health care

Communication June 11, 2019 9th IACB (International Association of Catholic Bioethics) Colloquium, June 16-21, ...

Abp. Paglia: We need a future of global openings, not global closures

On June 5, Bishop Paglia spoke at the round table "Fairness and security", which discussed computer ...

Palliative care: truly valuing human life

The Pontifical Academy for Life in union with the Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro organized the First Latin ...

Palliative Care: the Pontifical Academy for Life activities presented in Berlin

The Pontifical Academy for Life presented on May 23, 2019 in Berlin the German version of PAL-Life - see ...

Celebrated the funeral of Cardinal Sgreccia

Archbishop Paglia' statement about Cardinal Sgreccia "The death of Cardinal Elio Sgreccia certainly ...

A Network of Support

The experience of a mother facing a high-risk pregnancy can be - and usually is – a very difficult one. ...

On the case of Mr. Vincent Lambert

Joint Declaration of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life and the Pontifical Academy for Life on the ...

Grasping the "integral human dimension": the challenge facing the Pontifical Academy for Life

Milan, 6 May 2019.- The new Statute pushes the Academy to increasingly become a place of encounter and ...

Educating involves society

Educating involves many people and institutions while demanding very special competencies. Educating involves ...

Algor-ethics time: a debate in Rome

Rome, March 15. “Authentic progress and human development are not mutually exclusive, in spite of economic and ...

Working together, for the benefit of mankind. The 25th Assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life concludes

Vatican City, 27 February 2019.- “We are not closed in ourselves, we are an outgoing Church, on a journey and ...

Remembering Jerome Lejeune

Ce 10 avril, la Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris était pleine pour la Messe célébrée par mgr Ginoux, évêque de ...

Roboethics - February 26th - Socio-anthropological and Ethical implications

Tuesday - Main ideas “Se l’uomo costruisse robot per solitudine?” di Andrea Santoni - Adriano Pessina ...

Pope Francis: a new ethical alliance for life. Assembly 2019, first day: February 25

In the morning February 25th, Archbishop Paglia has opened the 25 General Assembly:  Our commitment - ...

Abp. Paglia in Moscow talks about end of life and Palliative Care

Moscow, 12 February 2019. - “A globalization devoid of Christian inspiration is poor in love and prey to ...

25 years: February 11, 1994 / February 11, 2019

The Pontifical Academy for Life has reached the important milestone of its first 25 years of life. Pope ...

Humana Communitas. Pope Francis' Letter for the 25th of the Pontifical Academy for Life

"Our shared humanity demands a global approach to the questions raised by the dialogue between diverse ...

Palliative Care and End-of-Life: in dialogue with Muslim world

World renowned experts on ethics, Islam, Christianity and medicine are gathering at Georgetown University in ...

Technologies, Ethics, Roboethics. Audio interviews

Archbishop Paglia was interviewed by the Spanish chain Radio COPE on Thursday 17 January on the Pope's Letter ...

Press Conference: Life is the whole human family!

On Tuesday 15 January 2019, at 11.00, in the Holy See Press Office, Via della Conciliazione 54, a ...

AI, Robotics, Roboethics. In preparing for the Assembly

By way of preparation to the subject of the Assembly, these are the links to three documents.  1. Report ...

Activities of some of our Academicians - Update

Mexico. Our Academician Martha Tarasco has co-edited an e-book  of general bioethics for ...

The birth of the International Family Monitor

Thursday 6 December 2018, at 11.00, in the Holy See Press Office, a press conference presented the ...

Safeguarding human dignity in every stage of life

Intervention by Msgr. Vincenzo Paglia at the conference for the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration ...

News from our Academicians: Usa and Argentina

News from our Academicians – USA and Argentina President Donald Trump has announced his intent to appoint five ...

Overcoming fear of death together

Overcoming fear of death together, hand in hand. Msgr. Vincenzo Paglia’s address on Graduation Day of the ...

Palliative Care: our commitment in Murcia, Spain

PRESS RELEASE. Palliative Care to counter the globalization of indifference and euthanasia. The commitment of ...

Our Academicians in the Roman Curia

Saturday, October 6th, The Holy Father Francis has appointed as members of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family ...

Palliative Care in Major Scientific Journal

Pontifical Academy for Life promotes Palliative Care (Pc) via Major Scientific Journal A «White Paper» to ...

The Philosophy of technology: new questions

The philosophy of technology, as a relatively new field, confronts the researchers with questions such as: ...

Catechism: death penalty is inadmissible

Pope Francis has ordered a revision of the Catechism of the Catholic Church to assert "the death penalty ...

Nobody helps the dirty work of death!

Monday June 25 in the Sala Clementina, in the Apostolic Palace, Pope Francis has met the Academicians of the ...

PROJECTS

Artificial Intelligence

Save the date. Workshop 2020 on Artificial Intelligence, February 24-25 2020. Further details in coming ...

Robo-ethics

Our society is characterized by the increasing use of machines and robots that can perform evermore ...

Global Bioethics Working Group

As a new area, Global Bioethics does not have an accepted definition and there is no demarcated description of ...

PALLIFE

The Pontifical Academy for Life has taken up the words pronounced by Pope Francis during his Audience of the ...

Consciousness, Neuroscience, and Ethics

Drawing upon its interest in neuroethics, a developing field which is currently of concern in the scientific ...

Human Genome Editing

The scope of human genome editing is steadily expanding at a fast pace. It promises to change our way of ...

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Official Site of The Holy See
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Photographic Service - Vatican Media (L'Osservatore Romano)
Enciclopedia de Bioetica
The National Catholic Bioethics Center
Hasting Center for Bioethics
Linacre Center for Healthcare Ethics
Centro de Bioetica Juan Pablo II in Cuba
Katholieke Stichting Medische Ethiek
International Association of Catholic Bioethics (IACB)
World Health Organization
International Bioethics Committee (UNESCO)
World Medical Association
Council of Europe (Thematic Dossier on Bioethics)
Comitato Nazionale per la bioetica (Italy)
HUGO - The Human Genome Organisation
National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
The Catholic Health Association of the United States
F.I.A.M.C. World Federation of the Catholic Medical Associations
FEAMC European Federation of Catholic Medical Associations
COMECE Comission of the Bishop's Conferences of the European Community
Institute of Bioethics - Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Sede di Roma
Bioethics Center - Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Sede di Milano
Laboratory of Bioethics SSSB - Istituto Teologico San Tommaso
School of Specialization in Bioethicsand Sexuology - Istituto Teologico San Tommaso
Faculty of Bioethics - Athenaeum Pontificium Regina Apostolorum
Instituto para el Matrimonio y la Familia Universidad Católica San Pablo (Perù)
Centro de Bioetica Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Cile)
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Georgetown University (USA)
Instituto de Bioética Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina (Argentina)
Instituto para el Matrimonio y la familia Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina (Argentina)
Cuadernos de Bioética (Spain)
Ethics and Medics The NCBC on the Health and Life Sciences (USA)
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal Georgetown University (USA)
Journal of medical Ethics (UK)
Medicina e Morale (Italy)
Catholic Medical Association - The Linacre Quarterly
SIBCE Società Italiana per la Bioetica e i Comitati Etici (Italy)
Scientists and Technologists for the Ethics of the Development (STES) (Italy)
Interdisciplinary dictionary of Science and Faith (DISF) (Italy)
Italian Confederation of Centers for Natural Fertility Regulation