

On October 22, 2018, Pacholczyk wrote a piece in the Catholic Herald titled "Sexual Orientation: Hope for restoration and healing with SOCE" (Sexual Orientation Change Efforts). On October 7, 2012, Pacholczyk wrote a piece in the Wall Street Journal titled "Please Step Back From the Assisted-Suicide Ledge" in which he notes, "If physician-assisted suicide really represents a good choice, we need to ask: Why should only physicians be able to participate?" He follows the rhetorical question to its conclusion by noting, "Why should doctors have a monopoly on undermining public trust? Police and lifeguards could help out too." He also serves as the director of education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia, whose long-time director, John Haas (retired 2019), is an ordinary member of the Pontifical Academy for Life. Īs of 2020, Pacholczyk is a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts.

In July 2020, he was appointed by United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar to serve on the National Institute of Health Human Fetal Research Ethics Advisory Board.
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He has written on a broad range of medical ethical issues, including ethical prescription and use of opioids, use of performance-enhancing drugs in professional athletics, animal/human hybrids, artificial nutrition and hydration, conscience rights for health care providers and patients, in vitro fertilization, palliative and hospice care, and physician-assisted suicide. Pacholczyk writes a nationally-syndicated column, titled "Making Sense of Bioethics," that appears in numerous Catholic diocesan newspapers in the United States and has been reprinted in newspapers in Canada, England, Poland, and Australia. (See Declaration on the Production and the Scientific and Therapeutic Use of Human Embryonic Stem Cells.) He has testified before state legislatures and been quoted in the press. He is a proponent of the teachings of the Catholic Church in opposition to human cloning and embryonic stem cell research. He quickly became a church spokesman on what he calls beginning-of-life and end-of-life issues. In 1999, he was ordained a priest, after studying in Rome. He earned his doctorate in neuroscience from Yale University and did post-doctoral research at Harvard University. His father Andrzej Pacholczyk was a professor of astrophysics at the University of Arizona. Pacholczyk grew up in Tucson, Arizona to a Polish family.

He is a priest of the diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts. He writes and speaks widely on bioethics and medical ethics. Tadeusz Pacholczyk currently serves as the Director of Education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia and directs the Center’s National Catholic Certification Program in Health Care Ethics.
