The National Catholic Bioethics Center – förlag

Examines the history of the curriculum and doctrine of the early American colleges by examining their founding, their statutes, the careers and writings of their first presidents.

In this apostolic age, when Christians' moral beliefs are opposed to those of the dominant culture, we must be prepared to present a countercultural, Christian vision in science, health care, politics, and everyday life. In few places is this clearer than in bioethics, the conscience of our technological civilization. Unfortunately, most lay faithful feel ill-equipped to witness to the ethical teachings of Christ in the world as it is, and new depths of knowledge, grace, and courage will be required of them.In Contemporary Bioethics, nine interdisciplinary authors from medicine, law, theology, and philosophy empower readers to speak to contemporary issues from informed and reasoned positions grounded in the light of truth. Using these insights as a roadmap, readers with an interest in the pressing issues presented here can better witness to the moral and ethical teachings of Christ and the Church in the world through personal conversations, community involvement, and civil engagement.

Half a century after the birth of the first person conceived through in vitro fertilization, there remains no definitive magisterial teaching on the moral liceity of embryo adoption. Catholics agree that the status quo, which has led to millions of unborn children being frozen in suspended animation as byproducts of IVF, is unacceptable. Nevertheless, consensus is elusive, and faithful Catholics sit in a kind of limbo, not knowing what if anything can be done for these young prisoners.Human Embryo Adoption, vol. 2: Catholic Arguments For and Against is the first academic book to systematically investigate the new argumentative strategies proposed since the 2008 promulgation of Dignitas personae, which contains the Church’s most direct statement on embryo adoption. The volume organizes current perspectives thematically, pairing arguments from one side of the debate with corresponding arguments from the other side. These involve questions on the proper use of sexual faculties, parenthood and the rights of the child, the theology of adoption, the example of the Annunciation, the Theology of the Body, and the works of mercy.By gathering the best arguments from a variety of approaches on both sides of the debate, Human Embryo Adoption presents the positions, arguments, and replies as they currently stand and as they are poised to move forward. This not only will help moral theologians move past the current impasses in the debate but will inform the consciences of faithful Catholics as they consider the practical question of what to do with offspring whose lives have been placed in a state of suspended animation.