Dr Mehmet Çiftçi

PGDip, MPhil, DPhil (Oxon)

Public Bioethics Fellow

Dr Mehmet Çiftçi is the Centre’s Public Bioethics Fellow. He read moral theology at the University of Oxford, completing first the MPhil at Blackfriars Hall, followed by the DPhil at Trinity College. He later undertook a post-doctoral fellowship at St Michael’s College in the University of Toronto. Palgrave Macmillan will soon publish his book about Vatican II’s teaching on Church-State relations. He is married and is a father of two.

Contact: pbf@bioethics.org.uk

Select Publications

Journal Articles

‘A Case Study of Catholic Social Thought in Action: Giorgio La Pira, Politician, Jurist, and Saintly Mayor of Florence’, Journal of the Oxford Graduate Theological Society, 2/2 (2021), 77-86.

‘Recovering the Unity of Theology by Means of Mariology’, Scottish Journal of Theology, 72/2 (2019), 191-206.

‘Saint Augustine and the Theological Critique of Ideology’, New Blackfriars, 99/1079 (2018), 20-29.

‘Liberation Theology: a Comparative Study of Christian and Islamic Approaches’, New Blackfriars, 96/1064 (2015), 489-506.

Chapters in Edited Volumes

‘George Grant and the Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Triumph of Technology?’ in Reading George Grant in the 21st Century, Tyler Chamberlain (ed), Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, pp. 251-269.

‘Religion and Socioeconomic Injustice’ in Oxford Handbook of Religion and Economic Ethics, Albino Barrera & Roy Amore (eds.), OUP, 2024, pp. 629–642.

Other Publications (Selected)

‘Doctors are sceptical about the merits of assisted dying’, The Times, 1 Feb 2024.

‘The expectations of an oath: lessons from Hippocrates’, Seen & Unseen, 18 Jan 2024.

‘The cold truth of Canadian lives not worth living’, Seen & Unseen, 9 Nov 2023.

‘Lethal paternalism’: why the case of ‘ST’ is so deeply disturbing, Catholic Herald, 19 Sept 2023.

‘God at the Coronation’, First Things, 9 May 2023.

‘Coronation vows and the relationships they make’, Seen & Unseen, 5 May 2023.

‘Why Dante Ditched the Culture War’, The Lamp, 29 April 2022.

Sincerest Thanks for Your Support

Staff are grateful to all those who sustained the Centre in the past by their prayers and the generous financial support from trusts, organisations, communities and especially from individual donors, including the core funding that came through the Day for Life fund and so from the generosity of many thousands of parishioners. We would finally like to acknowledge the support the Centre has received from the Catholic community in Ireland, especially during the pandemic when second collections were not possible.

We would like to emphasise that, though the Centre is now closed, these donations have not been wasted but have helped educate and support generations of conscientious healthcare professionals, clerics, and lay people over almost 50 years. This support has also helped prevent repeated attempts to legalise euthanasia or assisted suicide in Britain and Ireland from 1993 till the end of the Centre’s work on 31 July 2025.