The 28th of August is the Feast Day of Saint Augustine of Hippo, patron of the Augustine Bioethics Network.
Augustine is relevant for bioethics because bioethics presupposes an understanding of the human person and of the body and society. Augustine presents a vision within which both soul and body possess inherent human dignity and both body and soul are subject to vulnerability.
Though Augustine was an ancient thinker, his thought remains relevant today. The Secretary of the Augustine Bioethics Network, Professor David Albert Jones, will explore this further in a paper to be given at the Catholic Theological Association Annual Conference at Blackfriars, Oxford next week. We hope in due course to be able to share the fruits of this exploration with the Network.
On this day we also remember Pope Leo XIV who is the first Augustinian Friar to sit on the Chair of Peter.
A Happy Feast Day to all from all at the Augustine Bioethics Network!
