Father Kenneth Doyle
By Father Kenneth Doyle • Catholic News Service • Posted May 13, 2021
Q. When the Holy Father and Ayatollah al-Sistani met recently, at the end they stood facing each other and seemed to be talking without an interpreter. What language did they use in order to communicate? (Powhatan, Virginia)
A. According to the website of the Jesuit magazine America there was, in fact, an interpreter present. America said in its report on the March 6 meeting that “the two leaders of Christianity and Shia Islam sat beside a small wooden table and spoke with the assistance of the pope’s Palestinian-born translator.”
Commentary: The interface between global bioethics and Christian ethics
Commentary: The interface between global bioethics and Christian ethics
Msgr. Emmanuel Agius is on the faculty of theology at the University of Malta and is a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life. (CNS photo/courtesy Pontifical Academy for Life)
By: Msgr. Emmanuel Agius
Date: May 12, 2021
The ethical issues raised by the COVID-19 pandemic on the international scene clearly indicate that bioethical issues have no national or regional boundaries. Indeed, bioethical issues and concerns have become global and planetary!
All countries around the world have faced common challenges of how to safeguard public health; develop bioethical guidelines to assist health care professionals, administrators and public authorities in their thorny decision-making process in a context of scarce resources; and to foster international cooperation in biotechnological research to speed up the process of an effective
Q. When the Holy Father and Ayatollah al-Sistani met recently, at the end they stood facing each other and seemed to be talking without an interpreter. What language did they use in order to communicate? (Powhatan, Virginia)
A. According to the website of the Jesuit magazine America there was, in fact, an interpreter present. America said in its report on the March 6 meeting that the two leaders of Christianity and Shia Islam sat beside a small wooden table and spoke with the assistance of the pope s Palestinian-born translator.
I am happy, though, that you have called our readers attention to this important meeting in the cause of peace.
May 07, 2021
CWN Editor s Note: “Four Vatican institutions the Pontifical Council for Culture, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and Social Sciences, the Pontifical Academy for Life, and the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development have been at the forefront” of hosting such conferences, journalist Edward Pentin notes.
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By Father Tullio Proserpio • Catholic News Service • Posted April 30, 2021
As the global crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic continues and impacts all aspects of our existence, one constant continues. While we applaud the considerable and universal efforts made by various organizations to deal with this dramatic situation, the structural limits inherent within science itself have clearly emerged.
Science alone is unable to offer a fully adequate answer to all the questions that continue to emerge, and the pandemic has highlighted this inadequacy in a sensational way.
The Pontifical Academy for Life and its president, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, have stressed the need to guarantee and safeguard those aspects of health that are not immediately reflected in data and that, however, require full focus in this period: relationships, the psychological and spiritual dimensions of the person. These demand new attention.