What is Catholic stance on organ donation?
by 
Tabitha Santini
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"... particular praiseworthy ... is the donation of organs performed in an ethically acceptable manner, with a view to offering a chance of health and even life itself to the sick who sometimes have no other hope." -John Paul II "The transplanting of organs or tissues from a dead person to a living person does not offer any intrinsic ethical problem. Transplanting organs from one living person to another is also ethically acceptable, provided that the following conditions are met: 1. There is a serious need on the part of the recipient that cannot be fulfilled in any other way. 2.The functional integrity of the donor as a human person will not be impaired, even though anatomical integrity may suffer. 3.The risk taken by the donor as an act of charity is proportionate to the good resulting for the recipient. 4.The donor's consent is free and informed." -Dominicans Benedict M. Ashley and Kevin D. O’Rourke , their book Health Care Ethics http://www.catholicdoctors.org.uk/CMQ/Nov_1998/organ_donation.htm
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By and large, the Church is quite happy to accept donations of large organs. They must be real organs as opposed to electronic organs, and the Church would be delighted if the donor also covered the installation costs.
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They are for it, I am pretty sure, it depends more on the Catholic over all.
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Most churches already have an organ, you could probably give it to a homeless shelter. someone there could play it probably.
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Oh, they absolutely love it if you donate yours to them
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