MATERCARE INTERNATIONAL (MCI)
20TH ANNIVERSARY AND 13TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

CATHOLIC HEALTH PROFESSIONALS CAN STILL DELIVER:
Confronting today’s moral and ethical challenges
Patrons
MARY, MOTHER OF GOD
St/Dr Giana Baretta Molla
Pope St John Paul II
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Date: September 20 – September 24th 2017
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Place: Istituto Maria SS Bambina, Rome
Address: Via Paolo VI, 21 – Rome (Across the road from St. Peter’s Basilica)
Tel: +39 06 698 93511

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Day 1 Wednesday September 20th

8.30am Chapel: Mass and Retreat – Mary and the Theology of Motherhood
Directed by Fr. Richard Taylor
Spiritual Advisor, MaterCare International (UK)
10:30 Break (15 minutes)
10:45 Resume
12:00 Close

12:00 Papal General Audience St Peter’s Square (2.0 hours)
Great view from the roof

1:00-2:00 Lunch in Bambina or on your own at a nearby restaurant

3:00 Registration Located- basement hall outside of the elevator(lift) – Level 0

6:30 “Welcome” Main Conference Hall Level 0
Dr Robert Walley
Founder and Executive Director, MaterCare International
Professor Emeritus of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Canada)
Dr Bogdan Chazan
Chairman, MaterCare International
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Poland)
Dr Gian Luigi Gigli Co –organiser of the first MCI Rome Conference 2001;
Neurologist, Past President of FIAMC, Deputy of the Italian Parliament, President, Movimento per La Vita Italiano (Italy)
Dr John Lee
President of FIAMC via video from Singapore
Dr Elvis Seman
Founder, Chairman of MaterCare Australia
Obstetrician and Gynaecologist

7.00 Opening Address and Discussion
Catholic Health Professionals Can Still Deliver
His Eminence Willem, Cardinal Ejik
Archbishop of Utrecht, Physician, and Bioethicist (Netherlands)

8.30 20th Anniversary Reception
Opposite Conference Room

(PLEASE NOTE: NO DINNER SERVED IN BAMBINA DINING ROOM THIS EVENING)

To follow Informal “Get Acquainted” gathering on the roof of the Bambina. BYOB

11:00 Close

N.B. MAIN GATE AND DOOR IN AND OUT OF BAMBINA ARE CLOSED EACH EVENING

Day 2 Thursday September 2 1st

8:30am Holy Mass 20th Anniversary Opening and Thanksgiving Mass
His Eminence Willem, Cardinal Ejik
Archbishop of Utrecht,

SESSION 1 CONVICTION
9:30-10.30 “The History of Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide”
His Eminence Willem, Cardinal Ejik
Archbishop of Utrecht, Physician and Bioethicist (Netherlands)
Discussion
10:30-10.50 “The First MaterCare Conference: 2001”
Dr Gian Luigi Gigli, Neurologist, Past President of FIAMC, Deputy of the Italian Parliament, President, Movimento per La Vita Italiano (Italy)
10:50-11.10 “My Mother the Saint: Dr Gianna Barreta Molla”
Dr Gianna Emanuela Molla, daughter of St. Gianna (Italy)
11.10-11.30 Break (20 minutes)
11:30-11:50 “Religious Freedom, Law and Medical Practice- What Future?”
Fr Raymond de Souza, Parish Priest and Journalist (Canada)
11:50-12.10 “Continuing Professional Discrimination”
Dr Bogdan Chazan, Obstetrician and Gynaecologist (Poland)
12.10-12:20 Discussion
1.00 -2:00 Lunch in Bambina or on your own at a nearby restaurant

SESSION 2 COMPETENCE
3:00-3:20 “Principle of Double Effect”
Fr George Woodall (Rome and UK)
3:20-3:40 “The Object and Intention of NFP”
Fr George Woodall (Rome and UK)
3:40-4:00 Discussion

SESSION 3 COMMUNITY
4:00-4:20 “Lessons learned from 50 years of abortion in the UK”
Mr John Smeaton, Executive Director, SPUC (UK)
4:20-4:40 “UN and WHO Reports”
Mr Patrick Buckley (Ireland)
4.40-5.00 Break

5:00-5:20 “Quo Vadis America?: The Changing US Supreme Court and the Future of Life, Law and Morality.”
Nik Nikas and Dorinda Bordlee Bioethics Defence Fund (USA)
5:20-5:40 Perinatal Hospice and Prenatal Palliative Care.
Dr Giuseppe Noia Obstetrician and Gynaecologist Gemelli Hospital
5:40-6:10 Discussion
6:10 Close
8:00-9:00 Dinner in Bambina or on your own at a nearby restaurant

9.0 -10.00 CANATA IN CELEBRATION OF;
MOTHERHOOD, “FROM EVE TO MARY”.

10:00-11:00 Informal Gathering on the roof (BYOB)

Day 3 Friday September 22nd

8:30am Holy Mass

SESSION 4 COMPETENCE
Fertility Awareness Based Methods (FABM) – transforming Obstetrics and gynaecology. An examination of the transforming role played by modern FABM’s when applied to our specialties and focus on how each method is transforming women’s health care. A panel discussion will focus on how FABMs are changing a fertility unaware culture and factors which promote and impede them.
Chairs: Dr B Miller, Dr E Šeman. Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (Australia)
9:30-09:35 Introduction
Dr Elvis Seman (Australia)
9:35-9:55 “NaProTechnology: Where it is and isn’t gaining traction and why”
Dr Monique Risso, Family Practitioner (Gibraltar)
9:55-10:15 ” “Teaching Restorative Reproductive Medicine – Barriers and Benefits”
Dr Maria Wolfs Endocrinologist (Canada)
10:15-10:35 “Research in a Sympto-thermal Based Fertility Clinic: Its ripple effect”
Dr T. Kent (Australia)
10:35-10:55 Discussion
10.55 -11.15 Break
11:15–11:20 Introduction from Panel:
Dr M Čurlin, Billings Ovulation Method (Croatia)
Mrs A Fleming, Sympto-thermal method (Australia)
Ms Francesca Piana, Creighton Model System (Italy)
11:20-12:20 Panel presentation
12:20-12:40 Discussion
12:40 Close
1:00-2:00 Lunch

2.00-3.00 Personal communications
An audit of outcomes at Fertility Fundamentals:
NaProTechnology fertility clinic in South Australia
Dr Elvis Seman

Naprohelp
Treating infertility successfully, minimizing harm.
Dr Ludmila Lázničková, Brna, Czech Republic.

SESSION 5 COMPETENCE
3:00-3:20 “Blessed John Henry Newman’s address to medical Students”
Rev Richard Taylor, Professor of Scripture and Newman expert (UK)
Panel Discussion “Surviving training in obstetrics and gynaecology in a secular system”
3:20-3.40 Dr B Miller, Obstetrician and Gynaecologist (Australia)
3.40-4.00 Dr Malina Świć Resident in Clinical Genetics (Poland)
4.40-4.20 Discussion
4.20-4.50 Break
SESSION 6 COMMUNITY
4.50-5.30 MaterCare International, 20 years on, Foundation, Values, Mission,
Project Isiolo
Dr Robert Walley (Canada) and Mr Simon Walley (Canada)
5.30-5.50 “WHO Declassification of Natural Family Planning Methods”
Dr Chantal Kortman (General Practitioner), for Dr. Andre De Vos (Obstetrician and Gynaecologist Belgium)
5.50-6.30 Discussion
6:30 Close
8:00-9:00 Dinner in Bambina or on your own at a nearby restaurant
9.00-11.00 Informal Gathering on the roof (BYOB)

Day 4 Saturday September 23rd

8.30am Holy Mass

SESSION 7 COMPASSION
9:30-9:50 “Hard Cases made Canada’s very bad Assisted Death law”
Fr Raymond L de Souza, Parish Priest, Journalist (Canada)
9:50-10:10 “Euthanasia Tyranny Expands in Canada”
Dr Will Johnson, Chairman, Canadian Physicians for Life (Canada)
10:10-10:30 “Physician Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Creating a Resistance
Movement”
Dr Vincent Kemme, Bioethicist (Belgium)
10:30-10:50 Break (20 minutes)
10:50-11:10 “Euthanasia: Good for Government Health Care Costs and Source of Donor Organs” Mr Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (Canada)
11:10-11:30 Discussion
1:00-2:00 Lunch in Bambina or on your own at a nearby restaurant

SESSION 8 COMMUNITY
3:00-3:30 New Charter for Health Care Workers,
Professor A. Spagnolo, (Dicastery for Integral Development, Vatican)
3:30-4.00 “Anti-abortion battle in Poland and the role of ‘Ordo Iuris’”
Professor Aleksander Stępkowski, President of the Board, Ordo Iuris Institute for Legal Culture. (Poland)
4.00-4.20 Questions and Discussion
4:20-4:50 Break
4;50-5:10 “The Joy of Motherhood”
Ms Sivija Vasilij, (Italy)
5.10-5.30 “Using Social Communications to Offer Support to Practitioners and Patients”
Jennifer Derwey-Deane, MaterCare Media (Canada)
5:30-5.50 Discussion
5:50-6.30 The Future of MaterCare International
Close of Conference.
MCI Council and staff
8:00-9:00 Dinner in Bambina or on your own at a nearby restaurant
9:00-11:00 Social gathering on the roof (BYOB)

Day 5 Sunday September 24th

8:30-9:30am Closing Mass And Homily

9:30 Depart

12:00PM POPE FRANCIS SUNDAY ANGELUS

SOCIAL PROGRAMME

CANATA IN CELEBRATION OF: MOTHERHOOD, “FROM EVE TO MARY”.
Video of the first performance given in the Basilica of St. John the Baptist in St. John’s Newfoundland, May 28th 2017 Composer Gerard Blackmore.
This work was suggested by MaterCare International. It is unique as there is no other composition dedicated to the celebration of all mothers. This will be the first
International performance.

FRIDAY EVENING VISIT TO VATICAN MUSEUM (the only evening open, at your own expense)
http://www.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani/en/visita-i-musei/scegli-la-visita/musei-e-collezioni/musei-vaticani-in-notturna.html
A group visit with guide can be organised, minimum of 15 persons required.
Friday September 27th Museum visits are free.

3. SOCIAL GATHERING on the roof garden each evening from after dinner until 11.00PM (BYOB). N.B. Doors to Bambina are closed at 11.00pm