内容摘要：of sexual abuse by priests. DiNardo shared Francis’ strong support for migrants while defending traditional church teachings on sexuality.

of sexual abuse by priests. DiNardo shared Francis’ strong support for migrants while defending traditional church teachings on sexuality.

“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 thefailed that “maybe you’ll learn something for others like me.”

Fast forward to late 2023, when patients at a National Kidney Foundation meeting with FDA officials and pig developers described a life so miserable on dialysis that they, too, would chance an animal organ.“Why not try? That was really what we took back,” said Mike Curtis, CEO of eGenesis, one of the companies developing organs. “It was like we really almost have an obligation to try.”“The patients pushed us to go ahead,” agreed Dr. Tatsuo Kawai, a Mass General surgeon who’d been reluctant to even broach the idea – but last March, four months after that meeting, gave a longtime patient the first gene-edited pig kidney.

In Palm Springs, California, Carl McNew emailed NYU to ask about volunteering while he’s still fairly healthy.McNew donated a kidney to his husband in 2015 but later his remaining kidney began declining, something very rare in living donors. Medications and intermittent dialysis are helping but McNew knows he’ll eventually need a transplant.

Carl McNew watches television with his husband Steve Hunter in Palm Springs. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum)

Carl McNew watches television with his husband Steve Hunter in Palm Springs. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum)Cardinal Timothy Dolan speaks during a Mass for the late Pope Francis at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, April 22, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

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