Educational Resources

The Anscombe Bioethics Centre was committed to public education in bioethics, and produced a range of free educational resources which are available on this page.

For scholarly articles on bioethics, please visit our Research page.

Bioethics in Brief: A Catholic Guide

Why is the Catholic Church against IVF even though it results in a child? Is brain death really death? Does the Principle of Double Effect mean it doesn’t matter how much harm we cause, so long as we don’t intend it? For answers to these and many more questions, check out our virtual bioethics guidebook, Bioethics in Brief: A Catholic Guide. In this resource you will find short articles on a range of bioethical topics, laid out in an accessible, question-and-answer style.

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Interviews

From time to time we produced short educational videos in the form of an interview with a bioethicist. These often relate to stories in the media, such as new trends in euthanasia or the ethics of COVID-19 vaccine passports.

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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.