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Consultant Surgeon Andrew Ready and his team conduct a live donor kidney transplant at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham on June 9, 2006, in Birmingham, England.

Can Catholics donate their organs? Here’s what the Church says

Nov 5, 2024

By Daniel Payne

The Catholic Church states that organ donation is an acceptable and even morally laudable practice, but it must always be... Read more

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Catholic priest finds kidney donor through parishioner

Mar 2, 2024

By Francesca Pollio Fenton

Pennsylvania priest Father Tim O’Sullivan found a match unexpectedly right in his own parish. Read more

Patient in a hospital bed. Via Shutterstock

Catholics express concern over eroding ‘brain death’ standards

Mar 2, 2024

By Jonah McKeown

The signers of a recent statement say Catholics ought to remove themselves from their state’s organ donation registry and create... Read more

A National Health Service sign in the U.K.

Bishops respond to England's new ‘opt out’ organ donation system

May 21, 2020

A new law treating all adults in England as potential organ donors unless they opt out “potentially undermines the concept... Read more

Bishop Jacob Muricken, auxiliary bishop of the Syro-Malabarese Diocese of Palai, who is donating his kidney in a June 1, 2016 surgery.

This bishop in India is donating his kidney to save a Hindu life

Jun 1, 2016

A Syro-Malabar Catholic bishop from the southern Indian state of Kerala has a special way to celebrate the Year of... Read more