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Veritatis Splendor and the Ethics of Organ Transplants

We live at a time when technological progress has augmented and intensified our natural inclination to self-preservation while also arresting and eclipsing our moral wisdom. Thus, Pope John Paul II's October 1993 encyclical, Veritatis Splendor (The Splendor of the Truth) is the very moral wisdom that we are groping for. The encyclical is historic as well as timely because it marks the first time in the history of the Church that the Pope has addressed and defended the very foundations of morality against the rampant skepticism and confusion about moral norms. One of the most outstanding points of the encyclical is the upholding of the consistent teaching of the Church that a human act, independently of the intention of the agent or circumstances connected to the act, can be intrinsically evil and can be known to be so. In n. 80 of the encyclical, Pope John Paul II makes this point and then cites a passage from Gaudium et Spes that names some of these intrinsically evil acts.