Ignacio Perez was 17 when his kidneys first showed signs of inflammation and 23 when he started steroid therapy to manage his disease.
But that didn’t last long for Perez, a parishioner at Mission San Juan Diego in Arlington Heights, who is now 27. He started dialysis three times a week in June 2009, and kept up that grueling schedule until he received a kidney transplant last Feb. 24.
Perez, an active member of the “Jovenes,” or young-adult group run by the Office for Hispanic Catholics, now advocates for organ donation in churches and on a Spanish radio show he helps produce, working with the Gift of Hope organ and tissue donation network.
He wants to spread the message that organ donation saves lives, and that it is in accord with church teaching. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: “Organ transplants are in conformity with the moral law if the physical and psychological dangers and risks to the donor are proportionate to the good sought for the recipient. Organ donation after death is a noble and meritorious act and is to be encouraged as a expression of generous solidarity.
But that didn’t last long for Perez, a parishioner at Mission San Juan Diego in Arlington Heights, who is now 27. He started dialysis three times a week in June 2009, and kept up that grueling schedule until he received a kidney transplant last Feb. 24.
Perez, an active member of the “Jovenes,” or young-adult group run by the Office for Hispanic Catholics, now advocates for organ donation in churches and on a Spanish radio show he helps produce, working with the Gift of Hope organ and tissue donation network.
He wants to spread the message that organ donation saves lives, and that it is in accord with church teaching. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: “Organ transplants are in conformity with the moral law if the physical and psychological dangers and risks to the donor are proportionate to the good sought for the recipient. Organ donation after death is a noble and meritorious act and is to be encouraged as a expression of generous solidarity.
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