Lebanese man’s decades of research helps great-uncle’s sainthood cause

Fares Melki’s first introduction to his great-uncle was when he asked his grandfather about the picture framed above his grandfather’s bed. That was around 60 years ago, when Melki was 10. “It’s my brother, Padre Leonard. He was killed in Turkey,” his grandfather responded. “And that was all,” Melki recounted to Catholic News Service from Baabdat, Lebanon,... Read More

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January 24, 2020

New research details Catholic inmates at Auschwitz

A Polish researcher has published the first study of religious practices among Christian prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau, as the 75th anniversary of the Nazi-run death camp’s liberation is being marked in Israel and Poland. “Although most deportees to Auschwitz from occupied Europe were Jews, the camp was originally opened for Polish prisoners and also took in... Read More

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June 6, 2019

Former president of papal academy dies day before his 91st birthday

The former head of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Cardinal Elio Sgreccia, died on 5th June, just one day shy of his 91st birthday. A bioethics expert, the president emeritus helped articulate the Vatican’s position on many important issues such as embryonic stem-cell research, euthanasia, the definition of brain death, abortion and in vitro fertilisation.... Read More

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September 28, 2018

US urged to end funding of research using tissue from aborted babies

The chairman of the US bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities praised a decision by the US secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to end a Food and Drug Administration contract with a company “whose business is to procure aborted baby parts for research.” After this important “first step,” it “remains incumbent” on... Read More

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May 3, 2016

Ethics must guide medical research, protect human dignity, pope says

Moral and ethical concerns must guide medical research so it will always be at the service of protecting human life and dignity, Pope Francis said. In that way, education and research can strive “to serve higher values, such as solidarity, generosity, magnanimity, sharing of knowledge, respect for human life, and fraternal and selfless love,” he... Read More

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