“Issues in Care for the Seriously Ill and Dying”

Professor John M. Haas, PhD, STL, MDiv

John Cardinal Krol Professor of Moral Theology

St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Philadelphia, PA

President Emeritus

The National Catholic Bioethics Center

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be better able to:

• Distinguish between proportionate and disproportionate means of preserving life
• Explain the Catholic teaching on the provision of hydration and nutrition to patients in a permanent unconscious state
• Discuss application of the principle of double effect when providing analgesics as part of palliative care for the dying patient
• Relate the principle of always caring when it is no longer possible to cure
• Discuss why St. Peter’s had to opt out of the “Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act” of New Jersey

Host or Publisher Saint Peter's University Hospital