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==Commentary by Catholic writers==
There are several significant Catholic comments. They are listed in chronological order of publication.
===Father Edwin F. Healy, S.J. (1956)===
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|Title=
|Text=The general rule regarding mutilation is this, that mutilation is licit only when necessary for preserving the health of the whole body. The reason that the scope of justifiable mutilations is thus limited is that man has the supreme ownership neither of the whole body nor of its various parts, and that he is therefore not permitted to treat them as though he were the supreme owner. Man is merely the custodian of his body and its parts. Directly to destroy the body or one of its parts is to exercise over that object supreme ownership. One cannot act more clearly in a manner that implies ownership over a thing than by destroying it, for by so doing he puts an end to its very existence.
|Author=Father Edwin F. Healy, S.J.
|Source=
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|last=Healy
|first=Edwin
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|year=1956
|title=Medical Ethics
|url=https://www.catholicsagainstcircumcision.org/ethics-of-mutilation/
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|ISBN=
|accessdate=2022-08-15
}}</ref>
}}
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