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How has the Catholic Church participated in the debate on major global issues related to health, ecology and climate change? The Encyclical “Laudato Si: Caring for the Common Home (2015)” awakens his attention, his energies and joins the great inter- national scientific community to discuss together, in as partners, of the ecological question and the future of life on the planet.

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Industrialization has developed ingenious activities for the purpose of profit. This affects all sectors including agriculture and the concern is to verify the positive or negative interactions that the different economic activities have on each other. To do this, it is urgent to integrate the life sciences, including agriculture, to a much more global reflection for the future of society by taking into account cultural diversity, economic and social disparities, but first and foremost by integrating the “vital constants” without which there may not be a future at all.

[Chapter 4. Bioethics and religion in Latin America].

We want here to examine the challenge of cultural pluralism that the new discipline of Bioethics is rising to a Church that wants to leave the sacristy. Being herself in the contemporary world, the Church should be involved in those issues and should be concerned by the common anguish shared by secularized society, which does not share necessarily a religious vision of the world. We should question why theology should be interested in bioethics and its problems and the way we tackle them.

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We want here to examine the challenge of cultural pluralism that the new discipline of Bioethics is rising to a Church that wants to leave the sacristy. Being herself in the contemporary world, the Church should be involved in those issues and should be concerned by the common anguish shared by secularized society, which does not share necessarily a religious vision of the world. We should question why theology should be interested in bioethics and its problems and the way we tackle them.

[The role of communication techniques in the dissemination of programs linked to bioethics in Brazil].

As everywhere in the world, Bioethics is still a very recent domain in Brazil. The first initiatives date from the middle 1980s and its history goes hand in hand with that of institutions which encouraged it or, as in certain cases, are in fact born from the intellectual movement created by this designation concerning this new domain of philosophical and scientific knowledge. We still do not have statistics regarding the participation of the media in disseminating Bioethics in Brazil, but, as the leader of an institution that pioneered educational programmes and initiatives linked to Bioethics that reach our whole country, one may say that we can point out that the Internet, in addition to being a communication medium, that is to say, communication by means of electronic mails, is the main media as regards access to and broadcasting of literary (philosophical and scientific) production in Bioethics today.

History of bioethics in Brazil: pioneering voices, educational programs and future perspectives.

Although Brazilian bioethics has appeared in a globalized and dynamic context in which the main problems on the current agenda of bioethical questions had already been formulated (e. g., abortion, euthanasia, organ transplants, etc.