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#237 Coronavirus, Triage, and Pro-Life Ethics - R.J. Snell

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Senior Fellow in Ethics at the Culture of Life Foundation, RJ Snell, considers the difficult choices facing health care providers in the time of Covid-19. How can Catholic moral teaching inform these choices and ensure they are made humanely?

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome

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I am Cy Kellett your host

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in the midst of this coronavirus pandemic that we are all struggling through together.

0:16.0

First of all, many blessings to you and your family and with lots of hope that you are getting through it all right.

0:23.6

And staying close to the Lord.

0:25.2

But as we go through this,

0:27.0

certain ethical and moral issues come up,

0:30.4

that don't come up in ordinary life and ordinary times.

0:33.8

And so we thought we would take an episode of focus

0:37.1

to discuss some of those ethical and moral things

0:40.2

that have come up.

0:41.4

Dr. R.J. Snell has a piece currently called the

0:46.4

coronavirus pandemic and the ethics of triage. It appears on the

0:51.8

website of the Culture of Life Foundation.

0:54.4

So Dr. Snell, thank you for being with us.

0:58.1

Oh, very good to be with you, Sigh.

0:59.5

Thank you for having me.

1:01.3

Dr. Snell is the director of academic programs at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, New Jersey,

1:06.9

an academic director of the Aquinas Institute for Catholic Life at Princeton University.

1:12.0

He's a contributing editor of Public Discourse

1:14.0

and serves on the editorial board of Method Journal of Lonergan Studies.

1:18.4

He is also Senior Fellow in Ethics

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