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Just a reminder that Fr. Pacholczyk will be at St. Bernard’s on Wednesday, July 28…LIVE AND IN-PERSON!
This is also an excellent opportunity to plug the NCBC’s outstanding consultation service. If ever you face an ethically challenging situation in the world of healthcare (whether as a healthcare professional or as a patient) they have a variety of ways to get help. Check them out here!
This Wednesday is the Brighton Town Board Meeting. This will be the first in-person meeting since COVID started and it’s of utmost importance that there be as many people attend as possible- Brighton residents and non-Brighton residents alike.
When: THIS Wednesday (July 14, 2021) @ 7pm
Where: Brighton Town Hall at 2300 Elmwood Ave
If you are NOT a Brighton resident, we still need you in attendance.
If you ARE a Brighton resident, you will have an opportunity to speak at the open forum portion near the beginning of the meeting as to why you oppose a Planned Parenthood in Brighton.
We are excited to welcome the National Catholic Bioethics Center’s Fr. Tad Pacholczyk to St. Bernard’s! We are happy to be cosponsoring this event with the Diocese of Rochester, and St. Bernard’s School of Theology and Ministry. There will be limited in-person attendance and the talk will also be available via Zoom. Click here to register.
The Holy Father, through the CDF, and our Bishops (along with others) have been clear that while we are able to accept the currently-available COVID-19 vaccines in good conscience, we are also obligated to both avoid scandal and advocate for the development of vaccines that are developed in morally acceptable ways. The advocacy can take many forms, including…
The Guild has been closely following the development, and now distribution, of vaccines for COVID-19. There has been much written on this topic and we are in particular very thankful to the USCCB for their recent guidance on this important topic.
We will be posting our detailed thoughts on all of this shortly. In the meantime, we would like to provide some resources that we hope will be helpful in thinking through this important issue.
If you have questions or would like more information please don’t hesitate to contact us.
We had a great turnout last night for our 2nd Virtual Journal Club! Thank you to everyone who joined us. The discussion was lively and very informative.
Here are some pics from the VJC!
Stay tuned, we’ll be announcing details for our next VJC soon!
I hope you see you at our Virtual Journal Club tonight, see details here.
Here is a list of references from tonight’s presentation
•Population prevalence of Down syndrome in England & Wales in 2011 https://www.nature.com/articles/ejhg2012294
•Perinatal Hospice – AAPLOG https://www.aaplog.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/AAPLOG-Practice-Bulletin-1.compressed.pdf
•Formal and Material Cooperation, Ethics & Medics, June 1995 https://www.consciencelaws.org/religion/religion002.aspx
•Scandal definition http://www.catholictheology.info/summa-theologica/summa-part2B.php?q=267
•Catholic Encyclopedia – Scandal https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13506d.htm
•Eugenic Abortion in Iceland https://www.cbsnews.com/news/down-syndrome-iceland/
•Prenatal screening test characteristics https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4144440/
•What Are Women Told When Requesting Family Planning Services at Clinics Associated with Catholic Hospitals? A Mystery Caller Study https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29024351/
•Dear mom with a prenatal Down syndrome diagnosis https://aaplog.org/from-lauren/
