MATERCARE INTERNATIONAL’S (MCI)
14th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
10TH BIENNIAL IN ROME
THEME: CATHOLIC HEALTHCARE: WILL IT WITHER OR WHITHER CAN IT GO
PATRONS
Pope St. John Paul II
St/Dr. Gianna Baretta Molla
DATE: September 18 – September 22nd 2019
PLACE: Istituto Maria SS Bambina, Rome
Address: Via Paolo VI, 21 – Rome (Across from St. Peter's Basilica)
Tel: +39 06 698 93511
MOTHERHOOD. To appreciate the importance of motherhood in our contemporary world at least four complementary approaches must be envisaged by those in whose professional expertise this responsibility lies.
FIRSTLY, the Catholic physician must be professionally COMPETENT, in all the skills associated in caring for mothers. Legal and social aspects are a fundamental part of the doctor's and midwife’s remit. This is what the law, society and the Church rightly expect of them.
SECONDLY, the Catholic obstetrician must have the CONVICTION that Catholic teaching on ethics, magisterially guided, is not only true, but totally beneficial for the patients requiring medical assistance within the scope of his or her competency.
THIRDLY, this involves the Catholic obstetrician’s appreciation of the nature of society at large and of each particular local COMMUNITY within it. Motherhood is foundational for the flourishing of every society, and for every individual community, which is a constituent part of that society.
FOURTHLY, the Catholic obstetrician must appreciate that motherhood is so fundamental to human existence that profound COMPASSION is necessary. This involves compassion for all mothers and families, believers or not, who suffer to beget and bring up their children.
Day 1 Wednesday September 18th
9:00 am Chapel: Mass and Retreat – Humility and Authority
Directed by Fr. Richard Taylor (UK)
Spiritual Advisor, MaterCare International
Retired Professor of Scripture
10:30 am Break
10:45 am Resume
12:00 pm Close
12:00 pm Papal General Audience St Peter’s Square (2.0 hours)
Great view from the roof
1:00 pm Lunch in Bambina or on your own at a nearby restaurant
3:00 pm Registration
Outside of Conference Hall (Level -1)
6:30 pm “Welcome” Main Conference Hall
Dr Bogdan Chazan (Poland)
Chairman, MaterCare International
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Dr Robert Walley (Canada)
Founder and Executive Director, MaterCare International
Professor Emeritus of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
6:45 pm Opening Address and Discussion
Is Medicine as a Vocation Still Possible?
Sr/Dr. Maria Pilar Nunez Cubero
Company of Mary (Spain)
Obstetrician and Gynaecologist; Professor of Medical Ethics;
Missionary; Hospital Administrator
7:30 pm Wine and Cheese Anniversary Celebration
Opposite Conference Room
(Please note no dinner served in Bambina dining room)
9:00 pm Informal “Get Acquainted” gathering on the roof of the Bambina. BYOB
11:00 pm Close
N.B. MAIN GATE AND DOOR OF BAMBINA ARE CLOSED EACH EVENING
Day 2 Thursday September 19th
8:30 am Holy Mass 20th Anniversary Opening and Thanksgiving Mass
SESSION 1 SYMPOSIUM: WITHER CATHOLIC HEALTH CARE
9:30 -10:00 Opening Address
Most Rev. Kevin Doran
Bishop of Elphin, Ireland
10:00 -10:10 Dr. Robert Walley
10:10 -10:30 Dr. Dermot Kearney (UK)
President, Catholic Medical Association UK
10:30 -11:00 Break
11:00 -11:20 Mrs Geraldine McSweeney
President, CICIAMS International
11:20 -11:40 Mr. Patrick Buckley (Ireland)
11:40 -12:00 Fr./Dr. Rene Stockman
Superior General of the Congregation of the Brothers of Charity
12:00 -12:30 Questions and discussion
12:30 Close
1:00 Lunch
SESSION 2
3:00 - 3:20 Seventy Years after the Signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, The Fight for Freedom and Social Justice Continues
Fr. Raymond De Souza (Canada)
3:20 - 3:40 Poland –The Last Hope for Life, Defending the Handicapped
Prof. Bogdan Chazan (Poland)
3:40 - 4:00 The Training of Christian Doctors for the Future
Prof. Grażyna Gromadzka, (Poland)
Dean of the Medical Faculty (Collegium Medicum) of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University (Warsaw, Poland)
4:00 - 4:20 Questions and discussion
4:20 - 4:40 Break
4:40 - 5:00 Natural Cycles' Fertility App gets FDA Approval to Prevent Pregnancy
Dr. Elvis Seman (Australia)
Obstetrician and Gynaecologist,
5:00 - 5:20 Advances in Restorative Reproductive Medicine
Dr. Henrietta Williams (Nigeria)
Obstetrician and Gynecologist
Medical Director, Fertility Care Services Lagos, Nigeria)
5:20 - 5:40 Questions and discussion
5:40 - 6:00 Designer Babies
Ms. Fiorella Nash (UK)
Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child
6:00 - 6:20 Eugenics 21st Century Style
Dr. Andrzej Kochański (Poland)
Professor of Genetics in Mossakowski Medical Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
6:20 - 6:40 Questions and Discussion
6:40 Close
8:00 Dinner
Day 3 Friday September 20th
8:30 Holy Mass
SESSION 3 SPONSORED SYMPOSIUM - EUTHANASIA PREVENTION COALITION
9:30 - 9:50 Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide. World-wide Update
Mr. Alex Schadenberg, (Canada)
Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
9:50 -10:10 Child Euthanasia and the Expansion of Euthanasia Once Legalized.
Dr. Paul Saba (Canada)
10:10 -10:30 Euthanasia for Psychiatric Reasons
Dr. Annette Hanson (Canada)
10:30 -10:50 Questions and Discussion
10:50 -11:10 Break
11:10 -11:50 Euthanasia and Conscience Rights
Mr. Alex Schadenberg, (Canada)
11:50 -12:10 20 Years of Assisted Suicide in Oregon. How it has Changed Medical Attitudes.
Dr. William Toffler (Canada)
12:10 -12:30 Questions and Discussion
12:30 Close
1:00 - 3:00 Lunch
2:00 - 3:00 Free Communications
SESSION 3 CONTINUED
3:00 - 3:20 The Politics of Assisted Suicide in the Medical Community.
Dr. Gordon MacDonald (Canada)
3:20 - 3:40 The Culture Shift, Once Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide are Legalized
Mrs. Catherine Glenn Foster (Canada)
3:40 - 4:00 Moral Disengagement and the Legalization of Assisted Death.
Mr. Fabian Stahle
4:00 - 4:20 Eugenic Euthanasia and Concerns of People with Disabilities
Mrs. Amy Hasbrouck
4:20 - 4:40 Questions and Discussion
4:40 - 5:10 Break
5:10 - 5:30 Cannabis Who Cares
Fr. Raymond De Souza (Canada)
Parish Priest, Journalist and Author
5:30 - 5:50 "Is Cannabis the New Thalidomide?"
Dr. Stuart Reece (Australia)
Professor of Medicine at the University of Western Australia
and Edith Cowan University in Perth
5:50 - 6:30 Questions and Discussion
6:30 Close
8:00 - 9:00 Dinner
Day 4 Saturday September 21st
8:30 Holy Mass
SESSION 4 HUMAN SEXUALITY AND TRANSGENDERISM
9:30 - 9:50 Church, Chastity and Celibacy
Rev. George Woodall Professor (UK)
Professor of Medical Ethics and of Canon Law (Rome)
9:50 -10:10 Humanae Vitae 50 Years On
Rev. George Woodall (UK)
Professor
10:10 -10:30 Transgenderism
Dr. Paul Hurz (USA)
10:30 -10:50 “The Threat of the Transgender Ideology”
Dr. Pat Byrne, (Australia)
National Civic Council President, Australia
10:50 - 11:10 Break
11:10 -11:30 “The Incredible Value of Women as God’s Daughters”
Ms. Fiorella Nash (UK)
Society for the Protection of Unborn Children
11:30 -12:00 Down Syndrome - My Family Experience
Zayn Walley with my Father and Grandfather (UK)
12:00 -12:30 Questions and Discussion
12:30 Close
1:00 - 3:00 Lunch
SESSION 5
3:00 - 3:20 Dr. Gian Luigi Gigli (Italy)
Professor of Neurology
Past President of FIAMC
3:20 - 3:40 Vatican Forum Objectives
Geoffrey Strickland (Italy)
Executive Director, Vatican Forum,
3:40 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:20 MaterCare International Review
Dr R Walley (Canada)
Executive Director, Emeritus Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
4:20 - 6:00 Whither Catholic Health Care
We know What We must do and for Whom, the question is How?
Discussion
Registrants and the Audience
6:00 Close of Conference
8:00 - 9:00 Dinner
Day 5 Sunday September 22nd
8:30 - 9:30 Closing Mass and Homily
9:30 Depart