Pontifical Academy for Life

An opportunity to rethink healthcare ethics

The Anscombe Bioethics Center: Abp. Anthony Fisher on the Note "Pandemic and Universal Brotherhood"

Msgr Pegoraro: Covid-19, solidarity and mutual help

More than counting the days, you need to make every day count By Renzo Pegoraro Chancellor – Pontifical Academy for Life Osservatore Romano, Italian Edition, May 12th 2020

Pope Francis
Humana Communitas

Letter to the Pontifical Academy for Life - February 11, 2019.

Note on Vaccine issue

The Pontifical Academy for Life with the "Ufficio per la Pastorale della Salute" of Italian Bishops' Conference and the "Association of Italian Catholic Doctors" (2017).

NEWS

Note About the Announcement of New Guidelines On Pharmacological Abortion in Italy

Italy. Bioethics. About the innovations introduced in the medical abortion. The Pontifical Academy for Life ...

Humana Communitas in the Age of Pandemic

Vatican City, 22 July 2020.- It is entitled "Humana Communitas in the Age of Pandemic: untimely ...

The Popes and the Pontifical Academy for Life

From the Preface by His Eminence Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of His Holiness <This ...

Coronavirus and Solidarity

Pandemic and Brotherhood by Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia “Thick darkness has gathered over our ...

Pandemic and Universal Brotherhood

Vatican City, March 30th.- Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, academy president, gave Pope Francis a copy of the text ...

The Call for AI Ethics was signed in Rome

#RomeCallforAIethics @call_rome www.romecall.org Rome, February 28th. Pontifical Academy for Life, ...

Health as a public good. In dialogue with Celam

Bogotà (Colombia) - Vatican City, June 23 2020. The pandemic is devastating in the social effects it is ...

A common vision on the ethics of care

The Institute of Bioethics of the Pontifical Argentine Catholic University has brought together a group of ...

A New Renaissance

Vatican City - Rome, 27 May 2020 – Full convergence on the need for a new "Renaissance" that focuses ...

Multiple Sclerosis: conclusion of the Phase I clinical trial with brain stem cell transplantation

For the first time ever, all patients recruited in a brain stem cell transplantation trial were treated for ...

Updated membership of our Academicians

Vatican City, 27 January 2020. In view of the next Assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life (26-28 February ...

Be prepared for new Technological Challenges

University of Lima - Feb. 13, 2020 The development of robotics and artificial intelligence presents us with ...

Day 1. Palliative Care, Mental Health for Elderly

The day opened with the Archbishop Paglia' speech. Then dr. Sultana Afdhal' speech. "Our mission has ...

Bioethics and Religion, Casablanca - Morocco

UNESCO Workshop on Bioethics and Religion I recently had the opportunity to attend the 7th International ...

Abp. Paglia: Transplants as signs of a culture of giving

Rome, November 21.- «The topic of organ and tissue transplants is of particular interest for the Academy for ...

Abp. Paglia in Argentina - November 5-11, 2019

Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia is in Argentina in the second week of November 2019. He arrived in Buenos Aires on ...

No Euthanasia, Yes Palliative Care

On October 28, 2019 in the Casina Pio IV (Pontifical Academy for Sciences, Vatican City): - Archbishop ...

The Synod of the Pan-Amazon Region - 6-27 October 2019

On October 15, 2017, Pope Francis convened a Special Synodal Assembly on the Pan-Amazon, indicating that the ...

Blessed Hunger, Cursed Hunger

October 17th afternoon, Archbishop Paglia has participated at a round table at the FAO General Headquarters in ...

Palliative Care: at the beginning of a new humanity

Kigali, Rwanda, September 20th.- Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, has ...

Family and Future in Africa

On September 20th afternoon, Archbishop Paglia has spoken to the priests, lay people and pastoral workers in ...

A Delegation from the Pontifical Academy visits USA

Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, was in the United States from ...

Degrees and Programs - Pontifical Institute John Paul II

Here Degrees and Programs in Italian INTRODUCTION by Prof. Msgr. Pierangelo Sequeri, Dean of the ...

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

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

Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Congregation for the Clergy

Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development

Dicastery for Laity Family Life

Photographic Service - Vatican Media (L'Osservatore Romano)

Enciclopedia de Bioetica

The National Catholic Bioethics Center

The Anscombe Bioethics Centre

Hasting Center for Bioethics

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