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The Role of Conscience — Vocation of Catholic Health Care Professionals? (Part 2)

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by on May 23, 2011 in Catholic Bioethics, Featured
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How are Catholic health care professional to act, morally and professionally, in a culture where legislative mandates diminish the exercise of the moral conscience of the clinician and threaten human dignity and freedom?  The following principles are offered to guide moral action of health care professionals when confronted with a decision to disregard mandated unethical […]

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The Role of Conscience — Vocation of Catholic Health Care Professionals? (Part 1)

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by on May 20, 2011 in Catholic Bioethics, Featured
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  When he listens to his conscience, the prudent man can hear God speaking (Catechism of the Catholic Church, n.1777).   We live in a culture where health services are driven by moral relativism, commodification of the human person, the technological imperative, profitability in health services, the creep of utilitarian and impersonal ethical paradigms, escalating […]