Tag: Medicine
Catholics, Hippocrates, and reforming American medicine
George Weigel shares his deep concern about the state of medicine in the United States. Until recently a highly noble profession, it is being degraded by complicity in abortion, euthanasia and sex-reassignment of the young, he writes.
Daisy’s tumour brought us both to Christ
For six months Daisy, our five-year-old daughter, had been suffering from short sharp headaches and vomiting. We were told it was childhood migraine, but the reality was much worse. But Daisy’s journey of recovery became a journey of faith, writes Stephen Lacey.
ACT considers bizarre notion of human rights
By year’s end each state and territory, with exception of the Northern Territory, will have enacted legislation to enable euthanasia.
George Weigel: Doctors AWOL from the field hospital
Pope Francis’s image of the Church as a “field hospital,” tending the wounded on today’s social and cultural battlefields, resonates with Catholics across the...
Healing hands reflect on the bigger picture
Like any other medical body, the Australian Catholic Medical Association talked about the issues of the day – such as Covid and euthanasia – at its annual gathering in Sydney on 11 December.
Q&A with Fr John Flader: Doctor a holistic pioneer
“Dear Father, I am a medical student and a friend recently told me about St Giuseppe Moscati, an Italian physician and professor of medicine....