Background
Father Pacholczyk grew up in Tucson, Arizona to a Polish family. His father Andrzej Pacholczyk was a professor of astrophysics at the University of Arizona.
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Tadeusz Pacholczyk
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Harvard University; Yale University.
Career
He earned his doctorate in neuroscience from Yale University and did post-doctoral studies at Harvard University. In 1999, he was ordained a priest in Rome. He quickly became the leading church spokesman on what he calls beginning-of-life and end-of-life issues.
(See Declaration on the Production and the Scientific and Therapeutic Use of Human Embryonic Stem Cells) In December 2001, he testified before the Massachusetts Senate that "embryonic human life is inviolable and deserving of unconditional respect.".
Membership
He also serves as the director of education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia, whose director, John Haas, is an ordinary member of the Pontifical Academy for Life.
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Roman Catholic