Friday, February 4, 2011

Organ donation after election as Pope Benedict XVI removed from the list of donors

CITY 'OF THE VATICAN - Benedict XVI if he were still included as an organ donor the result, ironically, was the donation of relics. But since he was elected pope, the inclusion of Joseph Ratzinger is no longer valid. This is what is stated by the Vatican, through a letter from the Pope's personal secretary, Don Georg Gaenswein, denies rumors that it appeared sula German press.

In the letter, sent to Dr. Gero Winkelmann, medical Unterhaching, near Monaco of Bavaria, the German section gives news of 'Vatican Radio'. The news comes from an actual event, ie, from a simple cardinal, Ratzinger was enrolled in Germany to the list to donate organs. "If it is true that the Pope has an organ donation card - now writes Mgr.

Georg Gaenswein - it is also true, contrary to some public statements, that with the election of the card. Ratzinger heads the Roman Catholic Church, ipso facto it has decayed. " The decision of Cardinal Ratzinger. It was the then Cardinal Ratzinger in '99 to tell journalists to be entered on the list of organ donors, considering the donation for transplantation in a "gratuitous act of affection, of availability." "Donating organs for transplantation, voluntarily, consciously and in full consciousness, - said at that time - is giving rise to a real, profound act of love of neighbor." Pope, in 2008, receiving the participants at an international congress on transplantation, Benedict XVI called the donation of organs, "a peculiar form of witness of charity," and explained that "must be free, voluntary and respectful of the health and dignity of donor.

" "At a time like ours, often marked by various forms of selfishness - yet said - is becoming increasingly urgent to understand how crucial for a correct view of life enter into the logic of the free." All beliefs that are always part of the culture and spirituality of Joseph Ratzinger, even if the Pope does not make becoming more appropriate to think of him dressed as an organ donor.

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