By Alan B. Moy, MD, LifeSiteNews - While it is understandable that His Holiness would lack the necessary scientific and medical expertise to confront a pandemic, it raises the obvious question of who is advising the Pope and the Church hierarchy on matters of science and bioethics and to accept and promote secular public health positions. Within the Catholic Church there are three Pontifical Academies that advise the Pope on matters of science and faith and how that science should interface with Catholic teaching: the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the Pontifical Academy for Life, and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.