Yesterday we concluded the 28th General Assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life by addressing the topic of emerging and converging technologies, which after all Pope Francis explicitly mentions in his Letter Humana Communitas, which he wrote to us for the 25th anniversary of the Pontifical Academy. Emerging and converging technologies challenge our mindsets and […]

EQUITY IN HEALTH AND WELLNESS: HEALING AND TRANSFORMING THE SYSTEM TO DELIVER A SINGLE STANDARD OF CARE The changes that society has undergone in the Western world have led us to reflect more deeply on the task of medicine and on the way it deals with disease and the promotion of health.  The dizzying increase in scientific […]

The Vatican Publishing House published a text entitled Theological Ethics of Life. Scripture, tradition, practical challenges. The volume collects the Proceedings of an interdisciplinary study seminar promoted by the Pontifical Academy for Life. We discuss it with Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life and editor of the book. Archbishop Paglia, the […]

Regarding the United States Supreme Court decision that modified the 1973 legal position Roe v. Wade on the issue of abortion, the Pontifical Academy for Life presents the following statement. The Pontifical Academy for Life joins U.S. Bishops’ statement on the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. As Archbishop H. Gomez and […]

Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said today during the talks with the President of the Pontifical Academy for Life and Grand Chancellor of the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences, Monsignor Vincenzo Paglia, that the relations between Serbia and the Holy See are without open issues, stable and characterised by mutual […]

VATICAN CITY — The world can no longer ignore the suffering of the people of Haiti, an island that has been exploited and pillaged by wealthier nations for centuries, said Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life. In an op-ed written following his Oct. 17-19 visit to the Caribbean nation, Paglia hoped that […]