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- 2019
Pope Francis and Catholic Healthcare EthicsKeywords: Catholic healthcare ethics,Catholic social teaching,Alfie Evans,Pope Francis,field hospital,Charlie Gard,healthcare rationing,moral theology,peripheries,throwaway culture Abstract: This article examines the influence of Pope Francis on Catholic healthcare ethics. The first section offers an analytical summary of his ethics. The second section reviews a “Franciscan” approach to Catholic healthcare ethics, which situates that field within the broader context of Catholic social teaching. The third section analyzes the implications of three of Francis’s most powerful metaphors: his injunction to “go to the peripheries”; his contrast between a throwaway culture and a culture of encounter; and his comparison of the church to a field hospital
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