摘要：The author points at the rising of pastoral medicine in Catholic theology which has been caused by the development of medical sciences. It has gradually changed to the bioethics that we know today and that theology recognizes as well. In many Catholic moral textbooks of the second half of XX century there is a treatise under the title Medical Ethics, to which Pope Pius XII gave the strongest impetus. In these treatises moral theologians apply religious morality to medicine. In USA moral theologians and some writers who were intrested in the relation between science and religion, both the Protestants and Catholics, have considerably contributed to the rebirth of medical ethics, especially in the period between 1965 and 1975. The final part brings a brief contribution to bioethical issues in the John Paul II's encyclical Evangelium Vitae (1995).
