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Heavenly Helpers for the AEC
August 20, 2024 10:11 pmConference 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 1:11 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 1:34 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 7:16 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
CMA’s Annual Conference: Focus on Sexuality, Identity and Trends to Alter our Bodies and Humanity
July 16, 2024 2:17 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
