Please see the article written by our Holy Rosary Chapter member, Doyen Nguyen:
From: Doyen Nguyen
Date: Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 7:35 PM
Subject: Link to my article in Homiletic Pastoral Review + an appeal
To:
Dear Friends in Christ,
Below is the link to the article which my junior colleague (= Joseph the co-author) asked me to write for a non-academic audience. It was one of the most difficult tasks I had to do, as I had to squeeze as much information as possible within a space of 4,000 words — “to pack the kitchen sink in a carry-on luggage,” as it were. I purposely left several technical words here and there in the text so that the non-academic audience becomes familiarized with the medical and philosophical notions being used in the discourse on brain death.
https://www.hprweb.com/2021/03/brain-death-what-catholics-should-know/
FYI:
1. As some of you may already know, there is a strong push from the other side (which enjoys a position of strength, being backed up by the state, and yes, unfortunately, also by a good number of people in the Church) to get the legal authority to change the UDDA [Uniform Determination of Death Act]. This article was specifically written so as to alert and warn the general public, especially the grassroots pro-life movements, about this pending disastrous evil.
In other words, I am once again calling you folks — namely, those of you who are involved in grassroots pro-life movements, to spread the word, and to act proactively to somehow ward off this pending disastrous evil. As a retired academician, my tools are very much limited, and I am “passing the torch” to you.
2. HPR allows us to retain the copyright of our article so that it can be published elsewhere (e.g., on your websites), provided that there is an acknowledgment stating that the article originally appeared in Homiletic Pastoral Review. (Here is the original text written by the HPR Editor in this regard: You retain copyright, in case you would like to reissue any of your essays later elsewhere. We simply ask that you acknowledge its original appearance in HPR). So if any of you, or any people you know, would like to have the article published on your websites, please send me an email and let me know.
To reiterate, my main purpose for this article is to get as many people to know about the truth regarding BD, and more importantly, to know how to argue (just the most salient points) against pro-BD Catholics (e.g., the people at the National Catholic Bioethics Center, etc.) — both medically and philosophically, using the “nuts and bolts” that I provide in the article.
Your servant of Christ,
Doyen, OP