This fall the founding Catholic college of the University of Windsor has launched an independent branch of the Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute.
Basilian Father Leo Walsh, an elder statesman among Canada鱿鱼视频app Catholic moral theologians, heads up the CCBI-A.
鈥淚鈥檓 very pleased that there is a CCBI at Assumption and that (Fr.) Leo Walsh and Fr. Michael Prieur have started to get it underway,鈥� said CCBI executive director Moira McQueen. 鈥淟eo is clearly very knowledgeable and the more that is transmitted to the community the better. CCBI鱿鱼视频app twin mandate is research and education and I think we do a reasonable amount of each. I have always seen the value in education and research aimed at the Catholic community for its use. Education in Church teaching is necessary for everyone.鈥�
Outreach programs to parishes as well as Grade 12 students in Windsor鱿鱼视频app Catholic high schools will be the base on which Walsh hopes to build an academically respectable institute researching, publishing and teaching in bioethics, Walsh told The Catholic Register.
Assumption withdrew from all teaching and sold its historic building to the University of Windsor back in 2013. The Basilian-founded university retains its charter and continues to offer Catholic chaplaincy to the U of W鱿鱼视频app 16,000 students.
Freed of debts and the responsibility for maintaining historic buildings, Assumption will eventually teach undergraduates at the University of Windsor again. When it does, Walsh and the CCBI 鈥� A plan to be ready.
In Walsh鱿鱼视频app view Assumption has to engage people locally on the important debates of our time.
鈥淭he euthanasia thing, physician-assisted suicide, probably will come in one way or another,鈥� said Walsh. 鈥淲e have an excellent hospice here 鈥� the Cadillac of hospices. We want to make sure, just be a voice with them, that that will never touch their work. Never.鈥�
Getting into high schools to talk to Catholic students about bioethics will help students planning to attend university, said Walsh.
鈥淛ust to give them basic notions of Catholic morality 鈥� what it is,鈥� he said.
鈥淭hat it鱿鱼视频app something that can stand up to scrutiny. It鱿鱼视频app not just pie in the sky or airy fairy stuff. That it really is defensible.鈥�
While Walsh has been involved in the University of Toronto-based CCBI from its inception, and has been a long-time collaborator with McQueen, the new Assumption venture is completely independent, said Walsh.
鈥淚鈥漨 working with her (McQueen). But not in an economic or financial relationship at all,鈥� he said. 鈥淚n many ways we鈥檙e associated with them, but very independent.鈥�
The Assumption University bioethics institute will offer its own version of the CCBI鱿鱼视频app trademarked For the People in the Pews series of lectures at Most Precious Blood鱿鱼视频app parish hall in Windsor Nov. 5, 12, 19 and 26.