Plastic Perfection

Here’s something you don’t see every day … a Catholic priest weighing the pro’s and con’s of, um, breast implants. And they say celibate priests shouldn’t give marriage advice … yet I digress. Fr. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, a respected bioethicist at the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia asks (and tries to answer) the question of […]

Here’s something you don’t see every day … a Catholic priest weighing the pro’s and con’s of, um, breast implants.

And they say celibate priests shouldn’t give marriage advice … yet I digress.

Fr. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, a respected bioethicist at the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia asks (and tries to answer) the question of whether breast augmentation surgery is needed or even desired. He’s pretty clear that it’s OK for women who’ve battled breast cancer or other injuries, but for the everyday woman just trying to improve her image, he seems rather skeptical.


“A negative self-image can be very tough to overcome, and implants too easily tempt with a kind of false answer,” he says.

You can read his entire column here.

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