Your Excellencies:
While I am pleased to see signatures from the National Catholic Bioethics Center and the Archdiocese on Catholics United on Brain Death and Organ Donation: A Call to Action, a moratorium is long overdue.
Ten years ago, I recall a radio debate between Dr. Paul Byrne and the then National Catholic Bioethics Center President. While Dr Byrne commented that the president was "misleading the world" on so-called "brain death", the NCBC president seemed to speak as though St Pope John Paul II had unconditionally endorsed brain death criteria (Kresta in the Afternoon, 1/8/14)!
As terrible confusion has been allowed to fester in Catholic circles and among others of goodwill, the Archdiocese has a grave duty to correct this.
Joseph Tevington
Morrisville, Pa
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