Bioethics
“Finding new incentive to work for the growth of a culture of respect for life, health and the environment; and inspiring renewed efforts to defend the integrity and dignity of persons, not least through a correct approach to bioethical issues, the protection of the vulnerable and the protection of the environment”. This is the hope expressed by Pope Francis on the occasion of the 25th World Day of the Sick. In his message released today, the Pontiff reiterated his closeness in prayer to “physicians, nurses, volunteers and all those consecrated men and women committed to serving the sick and those in need; the ecclesial and civil institutions working to this end; and the families who take loving care of their sick”. “I pray that all may be ever joyous signs of the presence of God’s love and imitate the luminous testimony of so many friends of God, including Saint John of God and Saint Camillus de’ Lellis, the patrons of hospitals and healthcare workers, and Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta, missionary of God’s love”.
