Catholic Medical Association White Mass

Host Note

Please join us for the CMA’s annual White Mass at the OSU Newman Center! This year we are honored to host Fr. Tad Pacholczyk, PhD, a world-reknowned Catholic bioethicist, who will offer the Mass and give a talk afterward. His bio is below this invitation!

• 6:00-6:45 Holy Mass- please wear white coats or scrubs if you can/want to!
• 7:00-730: Dinner, networking, intro to the CMA
• 7:30-830: Fr. Tad lecture & Q &A (dinner continues)
• 8:30-9: Final wrap-up/closing prayer

ALL CATHOLIC HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS OF ANY DISCIPLINE ARE WELCOME (invite others & RSVP!); all residents and students in pre-health care professional programs are welcome!

THERE IS NO CHARGE for this event, BUT students from St. Charles will be collecting hats, mittens, scarves &/or gloves to distribute to the poor at the Center for Care (Knights of Malta) clinic in the winter season. If you can donate new or gently used winter items, please bring them!

Here is Fr. Tad’s bio:

Fr. Pacholczyk has degrees in philosophy, biochemistry, molecular cell biology, and chemistry. He later earned a PhD in neuroscience from Yale University, where he focused on cloning genes for neurotransmitter transporters, which are expressed in the brain.

After working for several years as a molecular biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Fr. Pacholczyk studied in Rome at both the Gregorian University and the Lateran University, where he did advanced work in dogmatic theology and bioethics, examining the question of delayed ensoulment of the human embryo.