Join us for an in-person briefing (at the Newman Centre of McGill University, main floor, 3484 Peel Street) on the Catholic Church’s response and guidance regarding the COVID vaccines. Dr. Cory-Andrew Labrecque, professor and chair of bioethics and theological ethics, and a director of the Newman Association of Montreal Inc., will offer a 20 min presentation and attendees will have 40 mins to ask questions afterwards. A social will follow, and some refreshments will be served.

All are welcome. In preparation, please read the following document by the CDF: https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20201221_nota-vaccini-anticovid_en.html

Speaker bio: Cory Andrew Labrecque, PhD, is associate professor of bioethics and theological ethics, and the inaugural chair of educational leadership in the ethics of life at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at Université Laval in Quebec City, where he is vice-dean and director of graduate programs in theology. He is especially interested in ethical issues in the context of aging and at the end of life, understandings of personhood, and the impact of emerging/transformative technologies on philosophical and theological perspectives on human nature and the human-nature-God relationship. He is vice-president of the National Committee for Ethics and Ageing (Quebec) and is corresponding member of the Pontifical Academy for Life.