Past Meetings 11/18/18 -

Dr. Angela Lanfranchi 
Hormonal Contraception and Evidence-based Medicine:  why these powerful sex steroids should never be used for contraception. This lecture was given at the national CMA meeting fall 2020. Here are her PowerPoint slides, if you don't want to watch the entire presentation. See also additional resources from Dr. Lanfranchi at The Breast Cancer Prevention Institute.
 

Fr. Tony Wroblewski


The Challenges of Technology in Biomedical Ethics

In our first exclusively Zoom meeting, Fr. Tony discussed his family's history, his journey into medical ethics, and his training. He reminded us of Jesus' healing and the Catholic tradition of healthcare. He reviewed the Ethical and Religious Directives and their implementation locally.  Quoting Archbishop Chaput: "We need to ask ourselves how “Catholic” we really want to be. If the answer is “pretty much” or “sort of” or “on my own terms” — then we need to stop fooling ourselves, for our own sake and for the sake of the people around us who really do believe. There’s no more room in American life for easy or tepid faith."

Link to talk by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M.: Health-Care Reform and the Future of the Catholic Health-Care Vocation:
https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/healthcare-reform-and-the-future-of-the-catholic-healthcare-vocation-3674

The Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Service 
https://www.usccb.org/about/doctrine/ethical-and-religious-directives/upload/ethical-religious-directives-catholic-health-service-sixth-edition-2016-06.pdf

meetings cancelled secondary to Coronavirus pandemic

Sister Joan Marie Stelman



“A Holy Alliance: The History of The Collaboration Between the Sisters of St. Scholastica and the Physicians of the Diocese Of Duluth“

Dr. Quentin Van Meter - "The Travesty of the Current State of Transgrender Medicine"

Georgiann Kuberra: Surrender to God

"Aren't They All Just Crazy Anyway?
The Psychiatric Differential Diagnosis of Demonic Possession"
- (Dr.) Deacon Tim Egan 

St. Raphael's Guild helped host a screening of Fatal Flaws: A thought-provoking journey through Europe and North America to ask one of the most fundamental philosophical questions of our time: should we be giving doctors the right in law to end the life of others by euthanasia or assisted suicide? Filmmaker Kevin Dunn uses powerful testimonies and expert opinion from both sides of the issue to uncover how these highly disputed laws affect society over time.

in the basement of
St. Michael's Catholic Church in Lakeside

“Acedia: The Silent Killer.”