The Palliative Care and Spirituality for Life (PCSLife) conference is a joint project of the Catholic Church\u2019s Pontifical Academy for Life (Vatican), The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and Houston Methodist Research Institute. These groups are united in their passion for promoting palliative care that is just, compassionate, and accessible throughout the world.<\/p>\n
The joint mission to advocate for the best possible palliative care transcends the barriers of distance\u201410,000 miles\u2014and doctrinal differences.\u00a0\u00a0Pope Francis stressed the importance of fostering dialogue between faiths in his Message to the Pontifical Academy for Life in February of this year:\u00a0\u00abThe complexity and delicacy of the subjects present in palliative care require continuous reflection and the spread of the practice to facilitate access: a task in which believers can find like-minded companions in many people of good will.\u00bb<\/p>\n
Italian Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, about Palliative Care says: \u00abEven if we can not cure, we can still alleviate pain and suffering and continue to care for the patient. The \u201cincurable\u201d patient is never \u201cbeyond care.\u201d Without this conviction, the medical profession can easily fall into \u201ctherapeutic abandonment\u201d (\u201csince no cure is available, there is nothing worth doing\u201d) or in a slide toward euthanasia (\u201cbetter to end it all\u201d). Palliative care, in opposing these two risks, helps the medical profession rediscover its humanistic vocation, which is to defend the dignity of every person in whatever condition that person might be in\u00bb.<\/p>\n
This Palliative Care and Spirituality for Life conference (PCSLife) brings together palliative care and spiritual leaders to explore how to integrate spirituality into palliative clinical practice, develop ecumenical approaches to palliative care that support the spiritual life of patients and caregivers, and advocate for best practices in palliative care around the world.\u00a0\u00a0The conference will also include an art exhibit by Lynn Randolph, whose moving work has been featured in hospitals and museums across America. We are pleased to announce an agenda and list of speakers for the conference, which is available in full on the website:\u00a0<\/strong>www.pcslife.org<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0\u00a0Registration is also open on this website.<\/strong><\/p>\n September 16th: Private gathering of speakers and executive committee Please note: The Palliative Care and Spirituality for Life (PCSLife) conference is a joint project of the Catholic Church\u2019s Pontifical Academy for Life (Vatican), The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and Houston Methodist Research Institute. These groups are united in their passion for promoting palliative care that is just, compassionate, and accessible throughout the world. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vincenzopaglia.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/images.png?fit=225%2C225&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5mkxU-6lo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincenzopaglia.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincenzopaglia.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincenzopaglia.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincenzopaglia.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincenzopaglia.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincenzopaglia.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24392,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincenzopaglia.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24390\/revisions\/24392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincenzopaglia.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincenzopaglia.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincenzopaglia.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincenzopaglia.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nPalliative Care and Spirituality for Life
\nSeptember 16-18, 2018
\nHouston Methodist Research Institute
\n6670 Bertner Avenue, Houston, TX, USA<\/p>\n
\nSeptember 17th: Public PCSLife Symposium & Marialuisa Lectureship for Life
\nSeptember 18th: Private gathering of speakers, executive committee, and Pontifical Academy for Life members<\/p>\n
\n– Italian Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia is the President of the Pontifical Academy for Life (Vatican City):\u00a0www.academyforlife.va<\/a>
\nDepartment of Palliative, Rehabilitation, & Integrative Medicine
\n– Prof. Mauro Ferrari, President and CEO Houston Methodist Research Institute
\nDirector, Institute for Academic Medicine at Houston Methodist Hospital
\nwww.houstonmethodist.org<\/a>
\n– Prof. Eduardo Bruera, Department of Palliative, Rehabilitation, & Integrative Medicine. UT MD Anderson Cancer Center\u00a0www.mdanderson.org<\/a>
\nFor contacts:
\nHouston Methodist: Gale Smith,\u00a0gsmith@houstonmethodist.org<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0281.627.0439<\/a>
\nPontifical Academy for Life: Fabrizio Mastrofini\u00a0pressoffice@pav.va<\/a>\u00a0mob.:\u00a00039 347 3504311<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"