Monday 25 Feb, 2008

Opening Session

9.30 - Greetings of the President of the PAV, H.E. Msgr. Elio SGRECCIA

9.45 - Prolusion: The Life, Gift of Love

          H. Em. Card. Javier LOZANO BARRAGÁN, President of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Health Care

10.30 - Coffee Break

First Session

Moderator: H.E. Msgr. Willem EIJK

11.00 - Sickness and Suffering in Sacred Scripture

             Prof. J.B. Edart (France)

11.30 - Secularization in the Face of Pain, Suffering, and Death

             Prof. J. Capizzi (USA)

12.00 - Developments of Modern Medicine in Life Support: Conquests and Risks

             Prof. G. Herranz (Spain)

12.30 - Debate and/or Possible Communications from the Academicians

13.00 - Lunch

Second Session

Moderator: Msgr. Ignacio CARRASCO DE PAULA

15.30 - The Good of Life and the Good of Health: The Duty to Protect Them

             Prof. J. Perez-Soba (Spain)

16.00 - Ordinary and Extraordinary Means of Preserving Life:The Teaching of the Moral Tradition

             Dr. P. Taboada (Chile)

16.30 - Coffee Break

17.00 - Therapeutic Proportionality and Therapeutic Obstinacyin the Documents of the Magisterium

             Prof. J. Haas (USA)

17.30 - The Principle of Ethical Propriety in the Use of Means to Preserve Life: Between Therapeutic Excess and Abandonment of the Patient

             Prof. M. Calipari (Italy)

18.00 - Debate and/or Possible Communications from the Academicians

19.00 - End of the Proceedings

N.B. The Holy Father Benedict XVI has been requested to grant a special audience for those taking part in the Congress. Therefore, the scheduled programme could change according to this event.

Tuesday 26 Feb, 2008

Third Session

Moderator : Msgr. Jean LAFFITTE

9.30 - The Difference between Limitation of Therapeutic Care and Omissive Euthanasia: The Role of Medical Information

           Prof. W. Sullivan (Canada)

10.00 - Deliberate Termination of Life of Newborns; the Groningen Protocol in Perspective

           Dr. T.H.R. de Jong (Holland)

10.30 - Coffee Break

11.00 - Accompanying the Dying Person: A Responsibility to Share

             Prof. R. Shaerer (France)

11.30 - Arranged Comunication: The "Double Normality" of Human Life

             Prof. R. Spaemann (Germany)

11.50 - Debate and/or Possible Communications from the Academicians

13.00 - Lunch

Fourth Session

Moderator : Prof. Angelo Fiori

15.30 - Palliative Care, Hospices, and Household Assistance

             Prof. Z. Zylicz (Poland)

16.00 - The Right to Die?

             Prof. W. Höfling (Germany)

16.30 - Coffee Break

17.00 - Advice to the Incurable Sick Person

             H.E. Msgr. E. Sgreccia (Italy)

17.30 - Debate and/or Possible Communications from the Academicians

19.00 - End of the Congress

INFORMATION

Taking part in the Congress is only allowed after registration, which can be done with this form or on-line at the following address: www.academiavita.org, no later than the 16 February, 2008.

The registration fee is € 100 per person and covers taking part in the proceedings of the Congress, the receiving of illustrative material, and a working lunch on 25-26 February 2008.

This fee should be paidin one of the following ways:

- cash, at the offices of the PAV;

- a (non-transferable) bankcheque made out to the PONTIFICIA ACCADEMIA PER LA VITA, to be handed over or sent to the offices of the PAV;

- bank transfer, with IBAN: IT56G0351203200000000002245 (for transfers from abroad add the code BIC: ARTIITM2), Credito Artigiano-Roma, made out to the PONTIFICIA ACCADEMIA PER LA VITA, indicating as the reason for the transfer‘registration Congress Feb. 2008’.

During the proceedings of the Congress there will a service of simultaneous translation (Italian, English, French, Spanish).

In response to a request made by a participant, the secretariat of the PAV will issue a certificate to the effect that the participant has taken part in the Congress.

Entrance to the New Hall of the Synod (the location of the Congress) is only possible if the participant exhibits an identity badge. This can be obtained directly from the secretariat of the PAV during the days before the Congress and, in any case, no later than h. 1:00 p.m. of Saturday 23rd February, 2008.

PONTIFICIA ACADEMIA PRO VITA

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