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What Every Catholic Should Know About Organ Donation | Dr. Joe Zalot
In this episode, Dr. Joe Zalot, Staff Ethicist at the National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC), joins us to explore one of the most pressing moral questions in modern healthcare: Can Catholics ethically participate in organ donation?
Dr. Zalot unpacks what the Catholic Church teaches about organ donation, focusing on three key principles:
The donor must be truly dead before vital organs are removed.
Free and informed consent must be given.
Donation must always be understood as a gift, never a commercial exchange.
This episode covers:
The Catholic view of brain death and why it remains…
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