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{"title":"Note of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on the morality of using some anti-Covid-19 vaccines, 21.12.2020.","authors":"Luis F Card, S I Ladaria","doi":"10.1177/0024363921991263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0024363921991263","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":505854,"journal":{"name":"The Linacre Quarterly","volume":"88 2","pages":"114-115"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0024363921991263","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38906763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Caring for the Poor and Vulnerable: A Virtue Analysis of Mandated Health Insurance Compared with Healthcare Sharing Ministries.","authors":"Ezra Sullivan","doi":"10.1177/0024363920949790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0024363920949790","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the present time, what has been called the \"medical-industrial insurance complex\" in the United States needs reform. As health insurance in the United States remains inaccessible to millions of people, and as prices continue to rise, questions arise about the most moral ways to ensure delivery of health care especially to the most vulnerable populations. In this essay, I offer a virtue analysis of the moral implications of health insurance mandated by the US Government in contrast to an increasingly popular alternative to insurance, namely, healthcare sharing ministries. In part 1, I list some of the moral problems entangled with US Government-mandated health insurance, including injustice, disrespect for patient autonomy, limitations on patient freedom, exploitation of patients for profit, undermining of conscience rights, cooperation with evil, and scandal. In part 2, I discuss the issue of risk and then list some potential moral advantages to healthcare ministries, including respect for patient autonomy, conscience, and the religious freedom to witness to the Catholic faith in charity and solidarity.</p><p><strong>Summary: </strong>Mandated health insurance the United States presents some moral challenges for conscientious Catholics, whereas healthcare sharing ministries appear to ameliorate some of these issues. Ultimately, the individual should have freedom to choose either insurance or healthcare sharing, given the different benefits and risks entailed by both.</p>","PeriodicalId":505854,"journal":{"name":"The Linacre Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"82-93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0024363920949790","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38853012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"When the Pager and/or Jesus Calls.","authors":"Lealani Mae Y Acosta","doi":"10.1177/0024363920942439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0024363920942439","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A physician reflects on the significance of responding to the pager, particularly during one Sunday Mass when she was summoned for assistance. How do we answer when we are called?</p>","PeriodicalId":505854,"journal":{"name":"The Linacre Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"6-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0024363920942439","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38853112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Anthropological and Methodical Differences of Natural Family Planning and Fertility Awareness-based Methods.","authors":"Birutė Obelenienė,&nbsp;Andrius Narbekovas,&nbsp;Jonas Juškevičius","doi":"10.1177/0024363919886517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0024363919886517","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The term natural family planning (NFP), both in the scientific terminology and in the practical language of health policy, is often referred to as natural contraception or fertility awareness-based methods (FABM). \"NFP. A guide to providing services,\" issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1988, presents NFP as a method inconsistent with any other contraceptive method but later published \"Family Planning, a Global Handbook for Providers,\" wherein NFP is not presented as a stand-alone method group but is grouped with FAB methods, which are combined with barrier contraception active during the fertile phase of a woman's menstrual cycle if there is a desire to postpone pregnancy. In other words, the WHO family planning recommendations present FABM as one group of contraceptive methods. The WHO is the directing and coordinating authority on international health within the United Nations' system. For these obvious reasons, the article mostly concentrates on WHO definition of FAMB. This article presents the anthropological and methodological differences between NFP (including and modern NFP methods that employ urinary hormone metabolite detection) and FABM and, through comparative analysis, determines that NFP is synonymous with neither FABM nor any of the methods of this group but is rather a distinct group of family planning methods.</p><p><strong>Summary: </strong>The term natural family planning (NFP), both in the scientific terminology and in the practical language of health policy, is often referred to as natural contraception or fertility awareness-based methods (FABM). The World Health Organization's (WHO) is the directing and coordinating authority on international health within the United Nations' system. WHO family planning recommendations present FABM as one group of contraceptive methods For these obvious reasons the article mostly concentrates on the WHO definition of FAMB. The article presents the anthropological and methodological differences between NFP and FABM and, through comparative analysis, determines that NFP is synonymous with neither FABM nor any of the methods of this group but is rather a distinct group of family planning methods.</p>","PeriodicalId":505854,"journal":{"name":"The Linacre Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"14-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0024363919886517","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38853114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Special Issue November 2021.","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/0024363920985674","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0024363920985674","url":null,"abstract":"Medicine is mission, whether practiced at home or abroad. But what do we mean by mission? Does it have a particular meaning to Catholics? And is there something more to being an actual medical missionary? These are ideas we hope to explore in The Linacre Quarterly Special Issue of November 2021, “Medicine in Mission.” Many members of the Catholic Medical Association have been involved in medical missionary work, and others are interested in becoming involved. This special issue intends not only to share the work and spirit of those who are doing such service, but also to inspire others to give themselves in new ways. Pope Francis and the Bishops of the United States have called us to be missionary disciples. How can we prepare our minds and hearts to meet this call? Relevant topics include–but are not limited to–the following:","PeriodicalId":505854,"journal":{"name":"The Linacre Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"108"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0024363920985674","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38853014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"On Martyrdom, Suicide, and Christian Bioethics.","authors":"Ethan M Schimmoeller","doi":"10.1177/0024363920927311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0024363920927311","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Christ has fashioned a remedy for the human condition out of mortality, making death the paradoxical means of salvation. Thus, the early Church saw martyrdom as the best kind of death, epitomized in the story of St. Ignatius of Antioch. He saw his death in Christ to be a birth into eternal life. Yet martyrdom and suicide can be conflated under crafty definitions and novel terminology, leading inevitably to calls to soften prohibitions against physician-assisted suicide. Whereas martyrdom locates death within the Christian lived experience of the Paschal mystery, suicide transfers the sovereignty of God over life and death to the individual, necessarily denying the goodness of creation in the process. I point to a liturgical foundation for bioethics as a better starting point for understanding martyrdom and suicide. Entering Christ's sacrifice, Christians receive divine life and new vision to locate suffering, death, and health care within the Christian salvation narrative.</p><p><strong>Summary: </strong>Confusing martyrdom and suicide locates ethics outside the Church by bending language around the 5th commandment. St. Ignatius of Antioch's martyrdom clarifies the role of the Christian bioethicist to situate health care in the Church's life-giving liturgical experience.</p>","PeriodicalId":505854,"journal":{"name":"The Linacre Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"56-64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0024363920927311","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38853010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Original Unity.","authors":"Deacon Dennis Dorner","doi":"10.1177/0024363920974836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0024363920974836","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Thomas Merton's vision of the original unity of humankind speaks of the oneness of the inner life of the Trinity. It is a vision that we need and one that the healers among us can offer us, whether they are acting as doctors or simply as Christians.</p>","PeriodicalId":505854,"journal":{"name":"The Linacre Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"105-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0024363920974836","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38853015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Health Care Today: Whom Do We Really Care About?","authors":"Brother Ignatius Perkins","doi":"10.1177/0024363920951660","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0024363920951660","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Health services in the United States, driven by moral relativism, technology, financial algorithms, present draconian threats to the ability of these services to respond to the health care needs of the American people. Critical moral issues must be addressed, resolved, and serve as the foundation for a renewed health care system that fulfills the call for the common good and provides services in response to the question \"who do we really care about.\" Millions of our brothers and sisters continue to join the ranks of the uninsured and unemployed. What is urgently needed is a fair, equitable, accessible, affordable, and, most importantly, an ethical system of health care where the dignity and freedom of the human person, across the continuum of life from conception to natural death, is once again recognized as the summit of the work before us.</p>","PeriodicalId":505854,"journal":{"name":"The Linacre Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"32-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0024363920951660","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38853116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Thomas Linacre: Humanist, Physician, Priest.","authors":"Fred M Taylor","doi":"10.1177/0024363920968427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0024363920968427","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":505854,"journal":{"name":"The Linacre Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"9-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0024363920968427","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38853113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Natural Family Planning and Marital Chastity: The Effects of Periodic Abstinence on Marital Relationships.","authors":"Richard J Fehring,&nbsp;Michael D Manhart","doi":"10.1177/0024363920930875","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0024363920930875","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Marital chastity is the practice of periodic abstinence with use of natural family planning (NFP). The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of the most common methods of contraception (female sterilization, oral contraceptive pills, and condoms) and NFP on divorce/separation and cohabitation rates among reproductive age women. The study involved an extensive review of the literature on the effects of practice of NFP on marital dynamics and a statistical analysis of 2,550 ever-married women in the (2015-2017) National Survey of Family Growth data set. Importance of religion and frequency of church attendance were included in the analysis. With ever-use of NFP, 14 percent were divorced or separated, and 27 percent to 39 percent were divorced or separated with ever-use of oral contraceptive pills. Stepwise logistic regression indicated that ever-use of contraception was associated with increased odds of divorce or separation (odds ratio [OR] = 2.05; confidence interval [CI]: 1.96-2.49) and cohabitation (2.95, CI: 2.20-3.95). Ever-use of NFP yielded 58 percent lower odds for divorce or separation. Frequent church attendance was associated with lower odds of divorce or separation and cohabitation. Although there are lower odds of divorce among NFP users, the reason might be due to their religiosity.</p><p><strong>Summary: </strong>This study showed that ever-use of natural family planning (NFP) among ever-married women was associated with 58 percent lower odds of divorce than among women who never-used NFP. Ever-use of contraceptive methods was associated with two times the odds of divorce and four times for cohabitation compared to those women who never-used those methods. Use of periodic abstinence with NFP is the practice of marital chastity and is thought to strengthen the marital relationship.</p>","PeriodicalId":505854,"journal":{"name":"The Linacre Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"42-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0024363920930875","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38853009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}