Culture of Life, Culture of Death: Proceedings of the International Conference on "The Great Jubilee and the Culture of Life".

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London: The Linacre Centre, 2002.

This volume contains the majority of invited papers and all the papers submitted on the initiative of their authors, which were delivered at an International Conference on "The Great Jubilee and the Culture of Life." The Conference was held in July 2000 at Queens' College, Cambridge. It was planned principally as an occasion for Catholics with an active interest in the ethics of healthcare to respond to Pope John Paul II's invitation to celebrate the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000.

No profession has been more deeply corrupted by the culture of death than the medical profession over the past century. And nothing has more deeply corrupted it than the practice of abortion and the attendant attitude that human life which is weak and vulnerable is disposable. So...