While the edition of this issue is being prepared, the first anniversary
of the death of Professor Elio Sgreccia is commemorated,
which occurred on June 5, 2019. He was the greatest exponent of
ontological personalism, applied to Bioethics, and he was the founder
of the Institute and the Bioethics Center of the University of
the Sacro Cuore in Rome, in 1984. The Medicina e Morale magazine
also founded by him depends from the above-mentioned institutions,
and to which for several years our own magazine was
linked, through an agreement to publish and translate the articles
of the Italian magazine into Spanish. Currently, both magazines
are independent, and the Mexican one has been going out uninterruptedly
four times per year, for thirty years.
Elio Sgreccia has managed to create a school of thought, not
only through the formal teaching of the Institute, as well as its
countless publications and communications on social media, but
also due to the multiple dissemination activities, and the time he
worked in the Pontifical Academy of Life before and during his
presidency.