RICHARD M. DOERFLINGER

Biographical Information

Richard M. Doerflinger is Associate Director for Policy Development at the Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, National Conference of Catholic Bishops, where he has worked for 19 years. Among his duties is the preparation of policy statements and congressional testimony on abortion, euthanasia, human embryo research, and other medical-moral issues for the bishops' conference. He is also Adjunct Fellow in Bioethics and Public Policy at the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Boston.

Since 1991 Mr. Doerflinger has edited the monthly newsletter Life at Risk: A Chronicle of Euthanasia Trends in America, and has coordinated efforts against physician-assisted suicide for the bishops' conference. He has also published widely on this and other life issues, with contributions to Catholic newspapers and magazines, Hastings Center Report, Duquesne Law Review, the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, and the new Encyclopedia of Catholic Doctrine published by Our Sunday Visitor Press. He holds a B.A. degree and an M.A. in Divinity from the University of Chicago, and has conducted doctoral studies in Theology at the Catholic University of America.

Mr. Doerflinger lives with his wife and four children in Silver Spring, Maryland.