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// Comments from the Fellows
Humanae Vitae Turns 40: A Study in Human Nature-
- E. Christian Brugger, D. Phil.

Pope Benedict XVI, in a speech last May marking the 40th anniversary of Humanae Vitae, stated that "the truth expressed in 'Humanae Vitae' doesn't change." It might also be said that the rejection of that truth doesn't change either. ... more >

Understanding Humanae Vitae
- Fr. Peter Ryan, S.J., STD

The significance of Humanae Vitae is not to be found primarily in the status of the document but in the teaching it contains. The core of that teaching-contraception is intrinsically wrong-reiterates what the Church has taught through the ages.
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Challenges of Humanae Vitae
- Mark F. Stegman, M.D., FACOG, CFCMC

At the conclusion of his 1968 encyclical Humanae vitae Pope Paul VI issued challenges to various groups within society to come to the aid of married couples in their living out of Church teaching in their daily lives.
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// iPSCs

Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

In Focus Special Report: Reprogramming - Tremendous Breakthrough in Stem Cell Research
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Do we still need embryos and cloning?
Answering Common Claims about induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs),
an ethically unproblematic alternative to human embryonic stem cells
(hESCs).
 
// With Good Reason

political responsibility - Catholic style

July 15, 2008

Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship is the most recent update of a document prepared and presented during the previous two election cycles by the Catholic bishops of the United States. The latest version—published last November, just a year before the upcoming presidential election—constitutes a fine synthesis of the principles which the Catholic Church offers to all comers, but particularly to Catholics, who take seriously their Christian vocation and seek to exercise their citizenship in the voting booth.  ...read more>

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