33rd World Day of the Sick

By Joe Tevington

01/09/2025 • View profile

The 33rd World Day of the Sick is scheduled for February 11, 2025, the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. The Holy Father's message has not yet been released.

Confusion has been festering with regard to Catholic Medical Ethics. I pray that the Holy Father will use the 33rd World Day of the Sick to clearly and forcefully proclaim the following:

Hormonal contraception must be excluded in the treatment of sexual assault; it is likely working as an abortifacient.
Reference #167 of the New Charter for Healthcare workers seems erroneous as Section 30 of Dignitas Personae appeared to preclude using “Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells.”
The Church has not unequivocally accepted brain death criteria.
It is impossible to change a person's sex. Efforts to encourage or make such changes are forbidden

(cf, World Day of the Sick: A Reflection, Catholic Stand, 1/29/24; It Is Long Past Time for Us to Wake Up About Catholic Hospitals, Catholic Stand, 11/6/24).

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Joe Tevington

Joe Tevington is a proudly orthodox Catholic, a husband since 1986, a dad to two adult children, a grandpa to two, and a civil service retiree. He is a sign language fluent certified rehabilitation counselor with graduate degrees in deafness rehabilitation, religious studies/moral theology, & Christian counseling psychology, as well as a catechetical diploma and certificates in benefits planning and Catholic social ministry. He deeply appreciates Catholic teaching on the sanctity of human life and the sanctity of the transmission of human life, as well as how they are to inform us in our apostolates and ministries.

On much lighter notes, he fancies himself to be the foremost authority on his native Brooklyn, when it comes to architecture, cinema, geography, history, Italian food, stick ball, stoop ball, or wiffle ball.

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