内容摘要：“I was so afraid to mention the word pig heart,” Griffith said. He marveled that patient David Bennett responded with a joke about oinking and made clear if the

“I was so afraid to mention the word pig heart,” Griffith said. He marveled that patient David Bennett responded with a joke about oinking and made clear if the

Dolan, 75, has been archbishop of New York since 2009. He previously served nearly seven years as archbishop of Milwaukee. He grew up in Missouri, where he was ordained in 1976. Among other duties, Dolan was chairman of Catholic Relief Services and served a term as president of the USCCB. In 2012, Benedict appointed him a cardinal. Dolan is widely viewed as conservative, writing a 2018 Wall Street Journal column headlined “The Democrats Abandon Catholics.” Yet in 2023, he wrote a letter of welcome to a conference at Fordham University celebratingCardinal Kevin Farrell, head of the Vatican’s family and laity office, speaks during an interview in Rome, July 31, 2018. (AP Photo/Paolo Santalucia, File)

Cardinal Kevin Farrell, head of the Vatican’s family and laity office, speaks during an interview in Rome, July 31, 2018. (AP Photo/Paolo Santalucia, File)Farrell, 77, was selected by Francis in 2019 as, the Vatican official who runs the Holy See after the

and before the election of another. Farrell was born in Dublin in 1947, entered the Legionaries of Christ religious order in 1966 and was ordained a priest in 1978. He left six years later — beforewas a pedophile — and became a priest in the Washington Archdiocese. He worked in several parishes and helped manage the archdiocese’s finances. He became auxiliary bishop of Washington in 2001 and served under

before becoming bishop of Dallas in 2007.

Cardinal Wilton Gregory, archbishop of Washington, speaks to reporters after Ash Wednesday Mass at Saint Matthew the Apostle Cathedral in Washington, March, 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)“There’s a tremendous number of patients who would be very willing, very willing to do this,” said Dr. Silke Niederhaus of the University of Maryland, who isn’t involved in xenotransplant research but watches it closely.

Niederhaus became a kidney transplant surgeon because around her 12th birthday, one saved her life. That kidney lasted three decades. When it failed, it took five years to find another. So she understands the draw of pig research, and urges people to learn their odds of getting a human kidney before volunteering.If they’re younger, healthier or have a living donor, “I would probably say go with what’s known and what’s proven,” Niederhaus said. But if they’re older and dialysis is starting to fail, “maybe it’s worth taking the risk.”

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