Why did the European Pope during the Middle Ages say blood transfusions meant hell for all Catholics who received them but when a recent European Pope was shot, he was the first to use blood transfusions?
What does that say about flip-flopping in the world of non-profit religions?
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2007-12-02 01:11:40 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Cause he is pope and can do what he wants.
The first fully-documented human blood transfusion was administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys on June 15, 1667.
2007-12-02 01:16:01 · answer #1 · answered by Precinct 1099 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I am a nurse and have never known any Catholics who were apposed to blood transfusion. I could not find anything about Catholic church opposing transfusions. However according to Wikipedia the first recorded attempt at a transfusion was in1492 Infessura recorded a doctor attempted to transfuse Pope Innocent VII. Both the Pope and the three donors died. In 1667 Jean Baptiste did the first successful transfusion of a sheep or goat blood into a 15 year old kid. In 1818 science discovered blood types and blood transfusion has been becoming safer to do. Were did you get your information.
2007-12-02 01:34:49 · answer #2 · answered by Tessa 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Flip-flopping means nothing. All though out the history of the world there have been beliefs that had their own reasons to exist.
Many believed that Witches actually existed, at one time. And that the earth was flat. And that the earth was the center of the universe.
The unknown has always had beliefs and still today they do.
Btw, most people believed that, not just the church.
Also, btw, there are still people that believe that today.
And as some answers have said blood transfusions are a rather new thing, aren't they? Why can't people understand history?
2007-12-02 01:24:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
One doesn't have anything to do with the other. There is no flip-flopping because we aren't talking about something that has to do with doctrine. A Pope isn't impeccable. He can only speak infallibly about matters of faith and morals, and only then under certain conditions. This has only been used a few times in the history of the Church since Peter.
2007-12-02 01:29:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They obviously didn't do blood transfusions during the Middle Ages. You're assuming that the modern medical knowledge that we have today always existed. It hasn't. Up to only a hundred-fifty years ago or so, people didn't know you could save someone's life by giving them more blood. In fact, people were routinely and purposely cut and bled out when they were ill, the belief being then that disease was caused primarily by "bad blood". The germ theory of disease hadn't caught on yet.
Go and get a real education - quit reading ridiculous and obviously untrue anti-Catholic propaganda.
2007-12-02 01:23:24 · answer #5 · answered by the phantom 6 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Apostles were burned, boiled in oil,stoned, all kinds of horrible deaths and they went to heaven God will change the body at the rapture anyway 1corinth 15: 51 & 52 1 thes. 4:16 &17
2016-04-07 03:25:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Middle Ages were rife with ignorance, and popes had no immunity to that. Obviously, society has learned a lot since then. To put it mildly!
2007-12-02 01:24:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Blood transfusions did not exist during the Middle Ages dear....
2007-12-02 01:18:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
1795 - In Philadelphia an American physician, Philip Syng Physick, performed the first known human Blood transfusion, although he did not publish the particulars
2007-12-02 01:25:01 · answer #9 · answered by Benny 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Seems like an odd thing for a pope to say centuries before blood transfusions were possible. Who told you that?
2007-12-02 01:16:50 · answer #10 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 4⤊ 3⤋