THE BLESSING OF HUNGER If there is an experience that deeply touches the human life, it is hunger. The first gesture of love is to nourish the new-born. Being nourished is the first experience of being loved. Hunger, in itself, is the basic experience of the relational meaning of life. Man does not live by […]

Introduction I am pleased to participate in the Sixth International African Palliative Care Conference hosted by the African Palliative Care Association and the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Rwanda. I would particularly like to thank Dr. Emmanuel Luyirika, President of the African Palliative Care Association, for his invitation, as well as all the […]

The Pontifical Academy for Life (Vatican City) and the World Innovation Summit for Health (Qatar), an initiative of Qatar Foundation, have announced a joint symposium titled ‘Religion and Medical Ethics: Palliative Care and the Mental Health of the Elderly’, to be held in Rome on 11-12 December, 2019. The first day of the symposium will focus […]

Vatican City, September 2, 2019- Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, will be in the United States from  September2nd . The visit is part of preparations for the next Pontifical Academy for Life Assembly on Artificial Intelligence, from 26 to 28 February, with the participation of Microsoft and IBM. Abp. Paglia’s […]

I want to thank Professor Dell’Oro for his invitation and kind welcome, and I want to say what an honor it is to meet and speak with you at Loyola Marymount, not only because of the academic excellence of your programs but additionally because I know that you have the ability to spread throughout the […]

(ANSA) – Vatican City, June 18 – Biomedicine can have “decidedly disconcerting” effects in chronic illness, the head of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Msgr Vincenzo Paglia, said Tuesday. “Biomedicine’s capacity to treat acute illnesses often entails the production of chronic pathological situations,” he said. Resuscitation techniques, for example, “on the one hand permit decisive […]