National Catholic Bioethics Center | Pope Benedict XVI Appoints NCBC President to Governing Council of the Pontifical Academy for Life

It is nice to learn that Dr. John Haas has been appointed by His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, to serve as a member of the Governing Council of the Pontifical Academy for Life for a period of five years.

John M. Haas, Ph.D., S.T.L., K.M., President of The National Catholic Bioethics Center, has been appointed by His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI to serve as a member of the Governing Council of the Pontifical Academy for Life for a period of five years. Dr. Haas was appointed as an Ordinary Member of the Academy by the Holy Father in 2006. The Academy chose to announce the appointment on June 22, the feast of the English martyrs Sts. John Fisher and Thomas More who “gave their lives for principles which are very much still actual and which are deeply relevant for the work of the Academy in the defense of human life.”

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