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Pope Francis praises unpaid organ donation
April 15, 2019
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CWN Editor's Note: In an April 13 address to the Italian Association for Organ, Tissue and Cell Donation (Italian-language link), Pope Francis warned against “any form of commodification of the body” and praised the “offering of a part of one’s own body, without risk or disproportionate consequences, in donation by the living, and of all organs after death.”
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