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Church Magisterial Documents

 To Doctors and Medical Personnel

…we hold those physicians and medical personnel in the highest esteem who, in the exercise of their profession, value above every human interest the superior demands of their Christian vocation. Let them persevere, therefore, in promoting on every occasion the discovery of solutions inspired by faith

and right reason.



—Pope Paul VI, Humanae Vitae #27

Papal Teachings

• On the Regulation of Birth (Humanae Vitae) 1968 Pope St. Paul VI
• On the Christian Meaning of Human Suffering (Salvifici Doloris) 1984 Pope St. John Paul II
• The Gospel of Life (Evangelium Vitae) 1995 Pope St. John Paul II

Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

• Declaration on Procured Abortion 1974
• Declaration on Certain Questions Concerning Sexual Ethics (Persona Humana) 1975
• Declaration on Euthanasia 1980
• On the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons 1986
• Instruction on Respect for Human Life in Its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation (Donum Vitae) 1987
• Responses to Questions Proposed Concerning “Uterine Isolation” 1993
• Instruction on Prayers for Healing 2000
• Considerations Regarding…Unions between Homosexual Persons 2003
• Responses to Certain Questions Concerning Artificial Nutrition and Hydration 2007
• Instruction Dignitas Personae on Certain Bioethical Questions 2008
• Clarification on Procured Abortion 2009
• Letter Samaritanus Bonus on the Care of Persons in the Critical and Terminal Phases of Life 2020
• Note on the Morality of Using Some Anti-Covid-19 Vaccines 2020

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Pontifical Academy for Life

• Statement on the So-Called “Morning-After Pill” 2000
• Declaration on the Production and the Scientific and Therapeutic Use of Human Embryonic Stem Cells 2000
• Respect for the Dignity of the Dying 2000
• Prospects for Xenotransplantation. Scientific Aspects and Ethical Considerations 2001
• “Ethics of Biomedical Research. For a Christian Vision” 2003
• “The Dignity of Human Procreation and Reproductive Technologies. Anthropological and Ethical Aspects” 2004
• Joint Statement on the Vegetative State 2004
• Examining “Quality of Life, Ethics of Health” 2005
• Moral Reflections on Vaccines Prepared from Cells Derived from Aborted Human Foetuses 2005
• “Christian Conscience in Support of the Right to Life” Final Declaration by the 13th General Assembly 2007

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Catholic Medical Association

• Homosexuality and Hope 

     Statement of the Catholic Medical Association 2000

• Vaccines Prepared from Cells Derived from Aborted Human Fetuses 
•      Statement of the Catholic Medical Association 2006

lac 1/15/09, rev. 6/17/16, 1/29/21