Michael Vacca, CMF’s bioethicist and Director of Ministry, Bioethics, and Membership Experience, dives into the dubious nature of the term “brain death” for in a new article Catholic Journal. 

“Brain death,” or death by neurological criteria is a legal fiction that is refuted by sound medicine, philosophy, and theology. As I will substantiate in this paper and in the Linacre Quaterly, so called “brain death” or “death solely by neurological criteria” is a mere pretext for active euthanasia via organ harvesting.

To read more, visit, Why “Brain Death” is Not the True Death of the Human Person – Catholic Journal.