Rethinking Priorities: Catholic Bioethics After COVID-19

Center for Spirituality Welcomes M. Therese Lysaught, PhD

Please join the Center for Spirituality as we welcome M. Therese Lysaught, Professor of Bioethics and Health Care Mission Leadership at Loyola University of Chicago as the first guest of the 2021 Spring Endowed Lecture Series, which focuses on “Spirituality, Ethics and Health Care.” COVID-19 has rapidly changed the way we live and the way we respond spiritually and ethically to those in need. In this virtual presentation, Lysaught will look at questions of Catholic bioethics in light of the pandemic, drawing from the new encyclical by Pope Francis, Fratelli Tutti.

Lysaught is a professor at the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Care Leadership at Loyola University Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine. She is the author or co-author of the following books: Catholic Bioethics and Social Justice, Caritas in Communion: The Theological Foundations of Catholic Health Care, On Moral Medicine: Theological Perspectives on Medical Ethics, and Gathered for the Journey: Moral Theology in Catholic Perspective. She was recently appointed to the Pontifical Academy for Life.

About the Center for Spirituality

Founded in 1984 with generous support from the Sisters of the Holy Cross, the Center for Spirituality offers programs that promote the engagement between faith and reason and the connection between mind, body, and spirit. For more about the Center and our offerings, including links to videos of past lectures, please visit https://www.saintmarys.edu/spiritual-life/center-for-spirituality.