Summaries / Resúmenes - Studia Moralia

308 NICANOR AUSTRIACOhuman being, alive and dead, organ donor or organ recipient.Only in this way will our society embrace a culture of life fulfillingthe suggestion of John Paul II who in his encyclical,Evangelium vitae, suggested that one way of nurturing a genuineculture of life “is the donation of organs, performed in an ethicallyacceptable manner, with a view to offering a chance ofhealth and even of life itself to the sick who sometimes have noother hope.” 76ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSI thank John Berkman, Basil Cole, O.P. and William E. Mayfor their helpful comments on earlier drafts of the manuscript.Address correspondence to: Rev. Bro. Nicanor Austriaco, O.P.,Dominican House of Studies, 487 Michigan Ave., NE,Washington, D.C. 20017-1584. U.S.A. Email: austriaco@op.org.NICANOR AUSTRIACO—————Br. Nicador Austriaco O.P., Ph.D., is preparing for ordination atthe Dominican House of Studies, Washington D.C.El hermano Nicador Austriaco O.P., se prepara para la ordenaciónen la casa de estudios do los Dominicos en Washington D.C.—————76Evangelium vitae, no. 86.