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Heavenly Helpers for the AEC
August 21, 2024 2:39 amConference Chair Dr. Felix Rodriguez and his committee knew that they would need heavenly helpers in planning this year’s conference covering the most pressing medical ethical issues of our day. These holy witnesses, icons of God who exemplify the Eucharistic Life, are the patrons of the conference. Learn more about them and why they were chosen to intercede for the 93rd Annual Educational Conference themed Imago Dei: Male and Female He Created Them. The post Heavenly Helpers for the AEC appeared first on Catholic Medical Association.
Much to Be Grateful For at CMA
August 19, 2024 4:46 pmThe 10th National Eucharistic Congress occurred in Indianapolis in July 2024 – What a gift for the Catholic Church in the United States! CMA Member Dr. Christina Chan hosted a CMA exhibit booth at the Congress and made our presence known to the tens of thousands of participants. Several CMA members attended and walked together at the Eucharistic Procession in downtown Indianapolis. This reminds us, as members of the Catholic Medical Association, to find ways to increase our Eucharistic Life. As Fr. Jean-Baptiste Chautard tells us in The Soul of the Apostolate, “The good results obtained by the apostolate correspond... View Article
Living and Dying for the Truth
August 16, 2024 5:45 pmFr. Christopher Kubat, M.D., Fr. Harlan Waskowiak and Fr. Daniel Rayer at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, where they offered Mass in the Slipper Chapel near the Basilica. Last month, I traveled to the UK with a couple of priest friends, Fr Daniel Rayer and Fr. Harlan Waskowiak. The primary reason for the trip was to visit the shrines and places where the English Martyrs died for Jesus Christ and His Universal Church during the 16th and 17th centuries and to see the National Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham. Secondly, it was an opportunity to relax... View Article
CMA Applauds the American Society of Plastic Surgeons for Questioning Gender Surgical Treatments
August 15, 2024 9:40 pmThe Catholic Medical Association (CMA) applauds the recent statements from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) published in City Journal regarding the treatment of gender dysphoria in adolescents. CMA agrees with ASPS that “there is considerable uncertainty as to the long-term efficacy for the use of chest and genital surgical interventions for the treatment of adolescents with gender dysphoria,” and that “the existing evidence base is viewed as low quality/low certainty.” CMA understands that these patients are indeed suffering and deserve the most compassionate and best medical care, as was noted in CMA’s Position Paper, The Ideology of Gender... View Article
July Newsletter
July 16, 2024 1:41 amJuly is the Month of the Precious Blood, instituted as a feast in 1849 by Pope Pius IX. To enter more deeply into this devotion, read this reflection, an excerpt from Father John Hardon, S.J. and others on this important feast. We suggest reading the little treasure, Devotion to the Precious Blood (TAN) by the Benedictine Convent of Clyde, Missouri. In keeping with greater devotion to the Precious Blood, we also invite you to pray for all those who will be participating in the National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis on July 17-21 and for those participating in the nationwide... View Article
How CMA Has Impacted Me
July 16, 2024 1:41 amBy Brooke Gensler How has the Catholic Medical Association’s vision to inspire physicians to imitate Jesus Christ impacted me? In my final days of family medicine residency, I find myself reflecting on the doors God opened and the people He placed in my path, which have shaped my formation in ways only He could have designed. Physician mentors and peers I have encountered through CMA are among these impactful influences. By walking with fellow CMA members, I have been strengthened, grounded, and inspired to authentically live my faith in my practice of medicine. As a teenager, I attended a... View Article
CMA’s Annual Conference: Focus on Sexuality, Identity and Trends to Alter our Bodies and Humanity
July 16, 2024 1:41 amBy Félix A. Rodríguez, MD The selection of themes to explore at CMA’s Annual Educational Conference (AEC) takes months of discernment and preparation. This year has been no exception. When our team first conceived how the aspects of Christian anthropology would be presented on the second day of the conference, it was clear we had to delve deeply into notions of sexuality, identity and radical attempts at altering our very humanity. We did not envision that by 2024 we would be facing extreme cultural shifts in how some in the medical field would move towards new previously unthinkable standards of... View Article
What Catholic Social Teaching Says About the Status of Embryos Part Two
July 16, 2024 12:44 amPart Two: Chemical Abortifacients and the Human Embryo By Angela Lanfranchi MD, FACS It is estimated that about 53% of all induced abortions in the U.S. and 60% of all abortions completed before 10 weeks gestation are caused by abortifacients. An induced abortion of an embryo or fetus up to 11 weeks is achieved under different protocols. This can be done using the progesterone antagonist mifepristone and the prostaglandin E1 analogue, misoprostol, in combination with mifepristone or by misoprostol alone. Interestingly, experiments in rats that undergo medically induced abortions using mifepristone also undergo similar behavioral changes as post-abortive women... View Article
Too Busy?
July 14, 2024 2:50 pmI know all who read this are busy persons. Busy with your families and your practices. Even those who are retired are busy. On one busy day, Jesus said to His disciples, “Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest for a while” (Mark 6:30-34). What did He mean by these words? What do they mean to us today? Ultimately, Jesus is calling us all to carve out a little silence each day to rest in the loving arms of God. It is during these moments we receive true peace, the kind only He can give in this... View Article
Artificial Intelligence: Preserving Human Dignity in the Integration of AI in Medicine
June 20, 2024 5:01 pmListen to Dr. Marie-Noelle Langan, a cardiac electrophysiologist, address her upcoming presentation on Artificial Intelligence at CMA’s Annual Educational Conference (click on the photo below). Her presentation will be on September 7, 2024 at 1:30 PM at the AEC in Orlando, Florida. More information and to register for the conference, go here. The post Artificial Intelligence: Preserving Human Dignity in the Integration of AI in Medicine appeared first on Catholic Medical Association.