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Is it Wrong to Be an Organ Donor? – Questions with Father #49 – Fr. Palko

SSPX Podcast

SSPX / Angelus Press

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9730 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2024

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of the SSPX Podcast, we will be answering a fairly common listener question – and one we tackled very briefly in one of our earliest episodes years ago – What should Catholics think about organ donation? Fr. Ian Palko is back to discuss this topic which, like many others we’ve talked about recently, doesn’t have an easy, clear-cut answer. It seems, on the surface, like a great gift and an extraordinary act of charity to give someone an organ so they can live. But we’ll see it’s not so simple. This is a question that touches on morality, but also relies a great deal on prudence and circumstance. Thankfully, Father will guide us through these tricky points!

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On this week's episode of the SSPX podcast, we will be answering a fairly common listener question, and one we tackled very briefly in one of our earliest episodes years ago. What should Catholics think about organ donation?

0:19.9

Father Ian Palco is back to discuss this topic, which,

0:22.5

like many others we've talked about recently, doesn't have an easy, clear-cut answer. It seems,

0:27.8

on the surface, like a great gift and an extraordinary act of charity to give someone an organ

0:33.7

so they can live. But we'll see it's not so simple. This is a question that touches on

0:38.6

morality, yes, but also relies a great deal on prudence and circumstance. Thankfully, Father

0:44.7

will guide us through these tricky points. Please remember that all of these episodes,

0:49.0

nearly 50 now, are free to listen to and always will be. But if you can help with a one time or a small monthly recurring donation,

0:55.6

you'll be making sure that we can continue this work of producing good Catholic content

0:59.4

on a regular basis.

1:01.1

Now let's join Father Ian Palco for Questions with Father Number 49.

1:06.9

Father Palco, it is great to have you back again.

1:10.0

We were supposed to record yesterday and then your flight got delayed.

1:15.0

And it was a fun travel day for you.

1:17.8

So thanks for still making the time to chat with us today.

1:21.0

This is par for the chorus for us who have these missionary travels.

1:24.1

So yeah, on Friday, my flight was canceled.

1:29.4

And then finally got down to the mission on Saturday. And then on Sunday, I had a flight canceled and then I got the next one.

1:36.4

And then that one was canceled. And then the next morning, it was delayed because of various

1:41.5

storms along the way. So, but you know what? As one of, we recently had a commencement speaker here in Kansas City.

1:50.0

Francis Auerkamp, I think you probably know him.

1:53.0

He's one of the state representatives out in Kansas and he came in and he was talking about

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