Day 3 Friday September 20th

MATERCARE INTERNATIONAL  (MCI)

10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

CATHOLICISM AND MATERNAL HEALTH CARE

Date:                   September 18th –  22nd 2013

Place:                  Istituto Maria SS Bambina, Rome

Address:  Via Paolo VI, 21 – Rome      (Across the street form St. Peter’s Basilica )

Tel:   +39 06 698 93511

Themes:              The New Evangelisation, the Practice of Obstetrics, and the Care of Mothers

Important Anniversaries:           The Year of Faith –  Closure October  2013

50th Anniversary of Vatican II

25th Anniversary of the Encyclical Mulieris Dignitatem

MOTHERHOOD. To appreciate the importance of motherhood in our contemporary world at least four complementary approaches must be envisaged by those in whose professional expertise this responsibility lies.

FIRSTLY, the Catholic Obstetrician must be medically COMPETENT, skilled in all that concerns matters obstetrical and gynecological. This not only involves being informed professionally in all the skills associated in helping mothers medically. Legal and social aspects are a fundamental part of the doctor’s remit.

SECONDLY, the Catholic doctor must have the CONVICTION that Catholic teaching on ethics, magisterially guided, is not only true, but totally beneficial for the patients requiring medical assistance within the scope of his or her competency.

THIRDLY, this involves the doctor’s appreciation of the nature of society at large and of each particular local COMMUNITY within it.  Motherhood is foundational for the flourishing of every society, and for every individual community, which is a constituent part of that society.

FOURTHLY, the doctor must appreciate that motherhood is so fundamental to human existence that profound COMPASSION is necessary. This involves compassion for all mothers and families, believers or not, who suffer to beget and bring up their children.

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Day 1  Wednesday   September 18th 2013

8.30 am  Holy Mass

9.00 am MaterCare International Retreat

Theme:  “Memories and Hopes”  – Vatican II and the Year of Faith

Directed by Rev. Richard Taylor, MCI’s Spiritual Advisor, Retired Professor of Scripture

1:00 pm Lunch

3:00 pm MCI Board Meeting  (All welcome)

The Future of MCI

5:00 pm Registration

6:30 pm “Welcome”

7.00 pm Opening Address

Bogdan Chazan MD (Poland), Chairman, MCI , Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology , CEO and Medical Director, Holy Family Hospital Warsaw

Robert Walley MD, Founder and Executive Director, MCI, Professor Emeritus of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Jose Maria Simon de Castellvi  MD (Spain), President, FIAMC (World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations)

Catholicism and Maternal Health Care

His Eminence, George Cardinal Pell, Archbishop of Sydney Australia

By Video link

8:00 pm  Wine and Finger Food Reception

Dinner (on your own)

Evening  “Get Acquainted” gathering on the roof of the Bambina.  BYOB

Day 2  Thursday  September  19th

8:30 am Holy Mass

Celebrant and Homilist ; Most Rev Henryk Hoser,  MD, Bishop  of Warsaw-Praga, Poland

SESSION 1 CONVICTION   THE NEW EVANGELISATION AND THE OBSTETRICIAN

9:30 am Keynote Address,

10:00 am A Personal Reflection, Most Rev Henryk Hoser M.D.  , Archbishop of Warszawa- Praga, Poland

Sr. Mary Hickey. MD (UK), Cardinal Hume Centre, London

10:30 am  Break

11:00 am The Call to Holiness and the Catholic Obstetrician

11.30 am Social Communications and the New Evangelization

Rev Conor Donnelly MD (Ireland)

Jennifer Derway (Canada), Social Media Director MCI

David Deane (Canada), Associate Professor of Theology

12.00 pm Questions and Discussion

1:00 pm Lunch

SESSION 2 COMMUNITY  MULIERIS DIGNITATEM

3:00 pm Mulieris dignitatem

Rev Richard Taylor  (UK), Retired Professor of Scripture, Spiritual Advisor MCI

3:30 pm Let it be done unto me: the Vulnerability of Assent

Leonie Caldecott (UK), Writer and programme director Second Spring Oxford”

4:00 pm Mulieris dignitatem  – The Obstetrician’s Guide to God’s Plan for Motherhood

4.30 pm The American Birth Control Mandate and the Contest Over the Meaning of Women’s “Freedom”

5.00 pm Contraception, Abortion and Reproductive Technologies  – What African Catholic Women Think.

5.30 pm Maternal Charter of Rights and the 91% Soution

Sylvie de Kermadec MD (France), Obstetrician & Gynaecologist and Director at the Institute Jerome Lejeune, Paris

Helen Alvare   (USA), Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law. Consultor, Pontifical Council of the Laity

Henrietta Williams  MD  (Nigeria),  Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, President of the Catholic Doctors of Nigeria

Robert Walley MD (Canada), Executive Director, MaterCare International

6.00 pm Questions and Discussion

6.30 pm  Close

8:00 pm Dinner

Day 3  Friday September  20th

8:30 am Holy Mass and Homily
Celebrant and Homilist, Msgr Jacques Suaudeau M.D. Ecclesiastical Assistant to FIAMC, Staff Member, Pontifical Academy for Life

PAPAL AUDIENCE DURING THE MORNING !!!

SESSION 3 COMMUNITY

9:30 am Evangelium vitae in the year of Faith, for obstetricians and gynaecologists.

10:00 am Violence Against Women

Msgr Jacques Suaudeau M.D., Ecclesiastical Assistant to FIAMC, Staff Member, Pontifical Academy for Life

Chantal Amisi MD (Democratic Republic of Congo), Obstetrician and Gynaecologist

10:30 am Break

11:00 am Gendercide  – Selective Abortion of Unborn Female Babies

11:30 am Prevention of Mitochondrial Disease (the three parent baby)

12:00 pm Ireland: a Safe Place for Mothers and Babies

Reggie Littlejohn (USA), Founder and President, Women’s Rights Without Frontiers.

Helen Watt (UK), Senior Research Fellow, The Anscombe Bioethics Centre.

Eoghan De Faoite MD (Ireland), Committee for Excellence in Maternal Health Care

12.30 pm Questions and Discussion

1:00 pm Lunch

SESSION 4 CONVICTION

3:00 pm Conscientious Objection Under Attack: Insights from the Perspective of Human Rights.

3:30 pm Gender Ideology – Proposals and Consequences

4:00 pm Same Sex Unions, Conscience, Politics and Legal Consequences

4:30 pm Same Sex Unions and Obstetrical Consequences

5:00 pm Conscience and Culture

Gian Luigi Gigli, MD, Member of Parliament  (Italy), Past President, World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations

Martha Miranda (Colombia), Lecturer, Strathmore University Law School  (Nairobi)

Anthony MacCarthy (UK)

Bogdan Chazan  M.D. (Poland), Obstetrician and Gynaecologist and CEO, Holy Family Hospital Warsaw

Dorinda Bordlee and Nik NIkas (USA) , Bioethics Defense fund

5.30 pm “ One of Us” European Union Campaign

Bogdan Chazan  M.D. , Member of the Polish Committee

6.00 pm NaproHelp Infertility Management

Ludmilla Laznickova  M.D. (Czech Republic), Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, Centre of Hope and Help

6.15 pm Questions and Discussion

6.45 pm Close

8:00 pm Dinner

Day 4 Saturday September 21st

8:30 am Holy Mass and Homily, H. E. Archbishop Zigmunt Zimowski, President, the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care

SESSION 5 COMPETENCE

9:30  am The Elderly Primigravida and Major Obstetrical Problems

10.00 am Emergency contraception Morning After Pill

Ewa Prokop M.D. (Poland) , Resident, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Holy Family Hospital Warsaw

Elvis Seman M.D. (Australia), Senior Lecturer in Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Flinders University

10.30 am  Break

11.00 am Emergency Contraception, The Ethical Controversy

11.30 am Obligatory First Trimester Prenatal Diagnosis

12.00 am Population Control and Sub-Saharan Africa

Helen Watt (UK), Senior Research Fellow, The Anscombe Bioethics Centre. Oxford

Sylvie de Kermedec M.D.  (France), Obstetrician & Gynaecologist and Director at the Institute Jerome Lejeune, Paris

Seamus Grimes, (Ireland), Emeritus Professor of Geography (National University of Ireland, Galway)

12:30 pm Questions and Discussion

1:00 pm Lunch

SESSION 6 COMMUNITY

3:00 pm High Risk Case Presentation  – Management of Second Trimester, Infected, Inevitable

Miscarriage and the Principle of Double Effect.

Eoghan De Faoite M.D. (Ireland), Helen Watt (UK),  Anthony MacCarthy (UK) and Audience participation

4.00 pm MCI’s Project Isiolo, Kenya

4.30 pm The Future of MCI  – Discussion

Robert Walley  (Canada), Obstetrician and and Gynaecologist

Katrin Heeskins (Germany), Formerly Diocesan Health Coordinator Apostolic Vicariate of Isiolo , MCI Staff

5.30 pm Presentations and Close

8:00 pm Dinner

Day 5 Sunday  September 22nd

8:30 am Closing Mass and Homily

Rev. Richard Taylor  (UK), MCI’s Spiritual Advisor

DEPARTURE

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Social events;

Informal gathering on the roof of the Bambina each evening  – BYOB

Evening visit to Vatican Museum to be arranged

Guided 2 hour evening walk-about the Vatican and Rome

Accommodation

(Euro) for single room per day (bed, breakfast, and 2 meals) per day  €.90

(Euro)  for double room per day (2 people – bed, breakfast, and 2 meals).  €.170

Please note:

*** Papal Audience confirmed !!!

***Accommodation rate will be 1 set price for either single or double rate (regardless of meals taken)

***Earliest check in September 17th and latest checkout is September 22rd.

Alternate accommodation nearby available once the Bambina is full.

Registration

€ 400 per person.  Spouse accompanying fee € 200.  Student rate:  € 200

Please reply by using the subject line “MaterCare Rome Conference 2013”

********There are no corporate sponsors for the event.

Conference Address

Istituto “Maria SS. Bambina”

Via Paolo VI, 21 – Rome

info@matercare.org

secretariat@fiamc.org

Tel:   +39 06 698 93511     Fax: +39 06 698 96540

Getting there;

The Istituto is close to St. Peter’s Basilica. (see below)

From Fiumicino airport (Airport Code-FCO) take a taxi directly address above;  €.50 –  less if shared.

or take the train to Termini (Rome’s mainline station) €.15, then white taxi €.15 or bus #64 to St. Peter’s: not easy, crowded but cheaper

or a train to Trastevere station and from there, a second train to St. Peter’s station.  Ok if you know your way around.

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