Lessons for Obama
Posted by Tom McFeely
Monday, July 13, 2009 9:15 AM
In a commentary posted at Politics Daily, Elizabeth Lev points out it was always a mistake to attach too much importance to last Friday’s meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and President Barack Obama:
There is little to fear (or expect) from this meeting; it is merely an introductory step to allow each leader to get beyond the endless distortions of the press and size up one another. Benedict... READ MORE
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Vatican on Vaccines
Posted by Tom McFeely
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 1:25 PM
(CNS/Reuters)
The Vatican’s new instruction on bioethical issues confirms that it’s acceptable in some circumstances for Catholics to use vaccines made with abortion-derived tissue.
Some Catholic pro-lifers have argued it’s never acceptable to use vaccines made with human cell lines derived from tissues obtained decades ago from aborted babies.
But as the Register reported several years ago in our... READ MORE
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Vatican on Embryo Adoptions
Posted by Tom McFeely
Monday, December 15, 2008 3:12 PM
Vials of frozen embryos. (CNS)
The new Vatican bioethics document, Dignatis Personae, provides guidance on the controversial issue of adopting frozen human embryos.
Rome’s judgement: Such adoptions are not a moral solution to the quandary posed by the existence of frozen embryos.
One of the many morally problematic consequences of IVF treatments is that the treatments result in the creation of large numbers of so-called... READ MORE
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The Dignity of the Embryo
Posted by Tom McFeely
Friday, December 12, 2008 2:27 PM
(Wikipedia)
Archbishop Salvatore Fisichella spoke today in Rome with Register correspondent Edward Pentin about Dignitas Personae, the Vatican’s new bioethics document.
Archbishop Fisichella, who is president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, discussed some of the U.S. implications of the new document, and the focus it places on the dignity of the human embryo. Here’s what he told the Register:
How... READ MORE
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Bioethics Document Released
Posted by Tom McFeely
Friday, December 12, 2008 12:53 PM
Illustration of early-stage embryo. (CNS)
Here’s what Cardinal Francis George of Chicago said about Dignitas Personae, the new Vatican instruction on bioethics released today:
“We welcome the Instruction as theologians, medical personnel, researchers and married couples consider new scientific and medical procedures that have profound ethical implications bearing upon the procreation of children and the integrity of marriage,”... READ MORE
Filed under bioethics, cardinal george, congregation for the doctrine of the faith, dignitas personae, u.s. bishops
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