Topic: Organ Donation
Resources in this topic
Address of The Holy Father John Paul II to the 18th International Congress of the Transplantation Society
Magisterial Documents
August 29, 2000
Description Pope John Paul II emphasises the ‘great ethical value’ of organ donation,[3] while making clear that to ‘commercialize human organs’ is ‘morally unacceptable’.[3] This Magisterial document is the first to address the determination of death by neurological criteria, also known as ‘brain death’. On this topic, the Pope first lays down the ethical principle
On the Ethics of Organ Transplantation: A Catholic Perspective. The report of a working party
Other Resources
October 1, 2014
This report is the work of an international group of clinicians, philosophers, and theologians convened by the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, Oxford. Most of the drafting was done by Prof David Albert Jones and Prof Nicholas Tonti-Filippini with further comments, suggestions, and corrections from other working group members. The aim of the report is to set