PROGRAMME:
MATERCARE INTERNATIONAL’S (MCI)
14th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
10TH BIENNIAL IN ROME
THEME: CATHOLIC HEALTH WILL IT WITHER OR WHITHER CAN IT GO
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PATRONS
Pope St. John Paul II
St/Dr. Gianna Baretta Molla
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DATE: September 18 – September 22nd 2019
PLACE: Istituto Maria SS Bambina, Rome
Address: Via Paolo VI, 21 – Rome (Across from St. Peter’s Basilica)
Tel: +39 06 698 93511
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 physician must be professionally COMPETENT, in all the skills associated in caring for mothers. Legal and social aspects are a fundamental part of the doctor’s and midwife’s remit. This is what the law, society and the Church rightly expect of them.
SECONDLY, the Catholic obstetrician 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 Catholic obstetrician’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 Catholic obstetrician 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.
Day 1 Wednesday September 18th
9:00am Chapel: Mass and Retreat – Humility and Authority
Directed by Fr. Richard Taylor
Spiritual Advisor, MaterCare International
10:30 am Break
10:45 am Resume
12:00 pm Close
12:00 pm Papal General Audience St Peter’s Square (2.0 hours)
Great view from the roof
1:00 pm Lunch in Bambina or on your own at a nearby restaurant
3:00 pm Registration
Outside of Conference Hall (Level -1)
6:30 pm “Welcome” Main Conference Hall
Dr Bogdan Chazan (Poland)
Chairman, MaterCare International
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Dr Robert Walley (Canada)
Founder and Executive Director, MaterCare International
Professor Emeritus of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
6:45 pm Opening Address and Discussion
Is Medicine as a Vocation Still Possible?
Sr/Dr. Maria Pilar Nunez Cubero
Company of Mary (Spain)
Obstetrician and Gynaecologist; Professor of Medical Ethics;
Missionary; Hospital Administrator
7:30 pm Wine and Cheese Anniversary Celebration
Opposite Conference Room
(Please note no dinner served in Bambina dining room)
9:00 pm Informal “Get Acquainted” gathering on the roof of the Bambina. BYOB
11:00 pm Close
N.B. MAIN GATE AND DOOR OF BAMBINA ARE CLOSED EACH EVENING
Day 2 Thursday September 19th
8:30 am Holy Mass 20th Anniversary Opening and Thanksgiving Mass
SESSION 1 SYMPOSIUM: WITHER CATHOLIC HEALTH CARE
9:30 -10:00 Opening Address
Most Rev. Kevin Doran
Bishop of Elphin, Ireland
10:00 -10:20 Dr Gian Luigi Gigli
Professor of Neurology
Past President of FIAMC
10.20-10:40 Dr Dermot Kearney
President, Catholic Medical Association UK
10:40 -11:00 Break
11:00 -11:20 CICIAMS International
TBC
11:20 -11:40 Mr. Patrick Buckley
11:40 -12:30 Questions and discussion
12:30 Close
1:00 Lunch
SESSION 2
3:00 – 3:20 Seventy Years after the Signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, The Fight for Freedom and Social Justice Continues
Fr. Raymond De Souza
3:20 – 3:40 Poland –The Last Hope for Life, Defending the Handicapped
Prof Bogdan Chazan
3:40 – 4:00 Sharp Decline in World Fertility
TBC
4:00 – 4:20 Questions and discussion
4:20 – 4:40 Break
4:40 – 5:00 Natural Cycles’ Fertility App gets FDA Approval to Prevent Pregnancy
Dr. Elvis Seman
5:00 – 5:20 Advances in Restorative Reproductive Medicine: The African Mission
Dr. Henrietta Maria Williams (Nigeria)
5:20 – 5:40 Questions and discussion
5:40 – 6:00 Designer Babies
Ms. Fiorella Nash (UK)
Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child
6:00 – 6:20 Human genome editing- Therapy or Eugenics 21st Century style?
Professor Andrzej Kochański (Poland)
6:20 – 6:40 Questions and Discussion
6:40 Close
8:00 Dinner
Day 3 Friday September 20th
8:30 Holy Mass
SESSION 3 SPONSORED SYMPOSIUM – EUTHANASIA PREVENTION COALITION
9:30 – 9:50 Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide. World-wide update
Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director
9:50 -10:10 Child Euthanasia and the Expansion of Euthanasia Once Legalized.
Dr. Paul Saba
10:10 -10:30 Euthanasia for Psychiatric Reasons
Dr. Annette Hanson
10:30 -10:50 Questions and Discussion
10:50 -11:10 Break
11:10 -11:50 Euthanasia and Conscience Rights
Larry Worthen (Canada)
11:50 -12:10 20 Years of Assisted Suicide in Oregon. How it has Changed Medical Attitudes
Dr. William Toffler
12:10 -12:30 Questions and Discussion
12:30 Close
1:00 – 3:00 Lunch
2:00 – 3:00 Free Communications
SESSION 3 CONTINUED
3:00 – 3:20 The Politics of Assisted Suicide in the Medical Community.
Dr. Gordon MacDonald
3:20 – 3:40 The Culture Shift, Once Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide are Legalized
Catherine Glenn Foster
3:40 – 4:00 Moral Disengagement and the Legalization of Assisted Death.
Fabian Stahle
4:00 – 4:20 Eugenic Euthanasia and Concerns of People with Disabilities
Alex Schadenberg
4:20 – 4:40 Questions and Discussion
4:40 – 5:10 Break
5:10 – 5:30 Cannabis Who Cares
Fr. Raymond De Souza
5:30 – 5:50 Cannabis as the New Thalidomide
Prof. Albert Stuart Reece (Australia)
5:50 – 6:10
6:10 – 6:30 Questions and Discussion
6:30 Close
8:00 – 9:00 Dinner
Day 4 Saturday September 21st
8:30 Holy Mass
SESSION 4 HUMAN SEXUALITY AND TRANSGENDERISM
9:30 – 9:50 Church, Chastity and Celibacy
Rev George Woodall Professor
9:50 -10:10 Humanae Vitae 50 Years On
Rev George Woodall, Professor
10:10 -10:30 Transgenderism
Dr. Paul Hurz (USA)
10:30 -10:50 “The Threat of the Transgender Ideology”
Pat Byrne, National Civic Council President, Australia
10:50 – 11:10 Break
11:10 -11:30 “The Incredible Value of Women as God’s Daughters”
Ms. Fiorella Nash
Society for the Protection of Unborn Children
11:30 -12:00 Question and Discussion
12:10 -12:30 Down Syndrome – My Family Experience
Zayn Walley with my Father and Grandfather
12:30 Close
1:00 – 3:00 Lunch
SESSION 5
3:00 – 3:20 Vatican Forum Objectives
TBC
3:20 – 3:50 MaterCare: Maternal Mortality and Morbidity
3:50 – 4:20 Break
4:20 – 6:00 Whither Catholic Health Care
We know What We must do and for Whom, the question is How?
Discussion
Registrants and the Audience
6:00 Close of Conference
8:00 – 9:00 Dinner
Day 5 Sunday September 22nd
8:30 – 9:30 Closing Mass and Homily
9:30 Depart
