Catholic Answers Live - Bioethics

 Questions Covered:

13:50 - If someone created a truly artificially intelligent being, would it be a sin to kill it? 

18:30 - My husband had a brain aneurysm and I ended up donating some of his organs but I never talked to a priest about it. Would you be able to tell me how to discern this matter? 

23:50 - Could you define what the church means by “extraordinary means to support life”? 

29:26 - What does the Catholic Church teach about Catholics practicing Yoga? I have heard about how just doing the poses can invite demons. 

33:25 - Could you elaborate on the Catholic response towards someone who’s “brain dead”? My stepdad passed away with oxygen to his brain. I wanted to talk about this experience and was wondering if Father could talk about what happened. 

43:15 - Could you talk about the pneumonia and shingles vaccines and the use of aborted fetal cells in them? 

45:32 - A patient asked me to prescribe Cialis, but I knew he was using it with a mistress. Was it wrong to give it to him? I also had a patient whose parents were going to place her in an institutional setting, and they wanted to put her on birth control so she wouldn’t become pregnant in case she was raped. Was it wrong to give it to her? 

 

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