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503 II (36) | reference to the Book of Genesis, both directly and through
504 II (*) | in her uterus and who is genetically a stranger to the embryo
505 Intro,4 | meeting in vitro of the germ-cells previously taken from the
506 II,2 | between genetic parenthood, gestational parenthood and responsibility
507 II | thus sets himself up as the giver of life and death by decree.
508 I,4 | condition that the parents have givers their free and in formed
509 II,7 | above all in relation to its goal which is the good of persons
510 Intro,1 | by proclaiming the Gospel of salvation, she reveals
511 III | researchers claiming to govern humanity in the name of
512 III | biologists, economic or governmental powers), take away what
513 Intro,1 | his commandments and the grace to observe them: and it
514 III | family. Civil law cannot grant approval to techniques of
515 II,8 | gift" (58) and the most gratuitous gift of marriage, and is
516 I,5 | to condemn the particular gravity of the voluntary destruction
517 I,1 | human being with his own growth. It would never be made
518 III | political authority is bound to guarantee to the institution of the
519 III | seen to be incapable of guaranteeing that morality which is in
520 I (27) | do not offer sufficient guarantees of their honest purpose
521 I,2 | the specialist would be guilty of illicit collaboration
522 II (51) | International Society of Haematology, 12 September 1958: AAS
523 Conclu | therefore are not meant to halt the effort of reflection
524 I (27) | purpose and substantial harmlessness. And if, as often happens
525 Intro (22)| When it is a question of harmonizing married love with the responsible
526 III | the Creator upon the human heart. All men of good will must
527 Conclu | matter, addresses a new and heartfelt invitation to all those
528 Intro,1 | May his spirit open men's hearts to the gift of God's peace
529 Intro,1 | Love which she owes to man, helping him to recognize and respect
530 II,6 | facilitates the conjugal act or helps it to reach its natural
531 II,2 | parental origins and can hinder the maturing of his personal
532 II,6 | expression of particular historical circumstances but is based
533 II (36) | CHRYSOSTOM, In Matthaeum homiliae, LXII, 19, 1: PG 58 597;
534 Intro (3) | POPE PAUL VI, Homily during the Mass closing
535 I (27) | sufficient guarantees of their honest purpose and substantial
536 Conclu | jurists and politicians. It hopes that all will understand
537 Intro (17)| POPE PIUS XII, Encyclical Humani Generis: AAS 42 (1950) 575;
538 II,7 | the child to be born. The humanization of medicine, which is insisted
539 Intro,2 | by man are to be further humanized. For the future of the world
540 II | usual practice presupposes a hyperovulation on the part of the woman:
541 I,6 | marriage.(32) Also, attempts or hypotheses for obtaining a human being
542 II,5 | so-called "simple case", i.e. a homologous IVF and ET
543 II (39) | Loc. cit., ibid., 489.~
544 Intro,3 | question presupposes a proper idea of the nature of the human
545 Fw (*) | attributing to them an identical ethical relevance, in order
546 III | realize all the cultural, ideological and political implications
547 Intro,2 | worse still, from prevailing ideologies. Thus science and technology
548 II,5 | mentioned. Certainly one cannot ignore the legitimate aspirations
549 II,5 | contrary to the doctrine on the illicitness of abortion previously mentioned.(49)
550 Intro,2 | would on the one hand be illusory to claim that scientific
551 II,6 | action, a simultaneous and immediate cooperation on the part
552 Intro,5 | spiritual soul of each man is "immediately created" by God; (17) his
553 I,5 | of their existence. It is immoral to produce human embryos
554 Intro,4 | the all-holy laws of God: immutable and inviolable laws which
555 II (47) | contract it because of the impedimentum impotentiae". ~
556 I,1 | instant of his existence. The implementation of procedures of artificial
557 III | ideological and political implications connected with the techniques
558 Intro,3 | therefore, perhaps in an implicit but nonetheless real way,
559 I (27) | therapeutic intentions. It implies that the doctor "above all ...
560 II,8 | spouses the occasion for other important services to the life of
561 II (47) | because of the impedimentum impotentiae". ~
562 III | to make an ever sharper impression upon the moral conscience
563 Conclu | rather to give it a renewed impulse in unrenounceable fidelity
564 I,5 | of the destiny of others inasmuch as he arbitrarily chooses
565 Intro,1 | contemplates the mystery of the Incarnate Word, the Church also comes
566 Conclu | all will understand the incompatibility between recognition of the
567 II,8 | sterility which appears incurable. Nevertheless, marriage
568 Conclu | of tomorrow. The precise indications which are offered in the
569 Intro,4 | procreation is therefore indispensable for formulating a moral
570 I,1 | being will be: a man, this individual-man with his characteristic
571 I,1 | human life, concerning the individuality of the human being and concerning
572 I,2 | go as far as directly to induce expectant mothers to submit
573 I,2 | the thought of possibly inducing an abortion depending upon
574 I (*) | By research is meant any inductive-deductive process which aims at promoting
575 Intro,1 | calls him to appreciate the inestimable value of what he has been
576 I,1 | utmost care; abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes". (23)
577 II,8 | THE SUFFERING CAUSED BY INFERTILITY IN MARRIAGE ~The suffering
578 Intro,3 | stricken by illness and infirmity and when they respect his
579 I,6 | influence chromosomic or genetic inheritance are not therapeutic but
580 Fw | possible to intervene in the initial phase of the life of a human
581 Intro,2 | Being ordered to man, who initiates and develops them, they
582 II,4 | broken by man on his own initiative, between the two meanings
583 III | the direct suppression of innocents: the moment a positive law
584 II | fertilization has required innumerable fertilizations and destructions
585 I (27) | Congress, 3 December 1982: Insegnantenti di Giovanni Paolo II, V,
586 II,4 | procreation affirms the "inseparable connection, willed by God
587 II,4 | life. It is an act that is inseparably corporal and spiritual.
588 I,4 | whether viable or not, either inside or outside the mother's
589 II,7 | humanization of medicine, which is insisted upon today by everyone,
590 Fw | by Episcopates, does not intend to repeat all the Church'
591 Conclu | context of the necessary interdisciplinary approach. Thus they will
592 Intro (1) | of the Italian Society of Internal Medicine and the 82nd Congress
593 Intro,2 | technology require, for their own intrinsic meaning, an unconditional
594 Conclu | that truth, everyone is invited to act in the area of responsibility
595 Intro,1 | reveals to man his dignity and invites him to discover fully the
596 II,5 | conjugal union, given the risks involved for the child and the difficulties
597 II,4 | the human being, a unity involving body and spiritual soul. (42)
598 II,4 | person. In his unique and irrepeatable origin, the child must be
599 III | and courage necessary for issuing laws which are more just
600 II (36) | 778; COUNCIL OF LYONS II, IV Session: DS 860; COUNCIL
601 II (43) | General Audience on 16 January 1980: Insegnamenti di Giovanni
602 Conclu | St. Peter, the Apostle. ~JOSEPH Card. RATZINGER ~Prefect ~
603 II,5 | process of IVF and ET must be judged in itself and cannot borrow
604 II,7 | special way urged to do justice to the moral obligations
605 I,4 | society, can in any way justify experimentation on living
606 I (27) | proportionate risk" is also to be kept in mind in the following
607 I,5 | he will send to death and kills defenceless human beings. ~
608 I,1 | moral condemnation of any kind of procured abortion. This
609 I,1 | aims pursued are of various kinds: diagnostic and therapeutic,
610 I,2 | diagnosis makes it possible to know the condition of the embryo
611 I (*) | unknown or not sufficiently known, of a given treatment (e.g.
612 II,2 | the spouses and a grave lack in regard to that essential
613 II,6 | its unitive meaning: "It lacks the sexual relationship
614 Intro,3 | moral law expresses and lays down the purposes, rights
615 II | procedure possible thus leads, whether one wants it or
616 II (36) | plan of the Creator, "A man leaves his father and his mother
617 III | therefore civil law cannot legalize the donation of gametes
618 II (36) | 5: 31. Cf. ATHENAGORAS, Legatio pro christianis, 33: PG
619 III | between persons who are not legitimately united in marriage. Legislation
620 III | beings could come to be legitimized: this would constitute an
621 II (38) | POPE PAUL VI, Encyclical Letter Humanae Vitae, 12: AAS 60 (
622 Intro,3 | person himself on different levels. It involves, therefore,
623 Intro,1 | accomplish the work of truth and liberation. For it is out of goodness -
624 Conclu | loving with that dignity and liberty which derive from respect
625 II,5 | therapy, whereby its moral licitness could be admitted. The desire
626 Intro,3 | procreation which cannot be likened to those existing in lower
627 Intro,2 | man in his own image and likeness: "male and female he created
628 Intro,1 | observe them: and it is likewise out of goodness - in order
629 I,4 | all research, even when limited to the simple observation
630 II | and the cold logic which links them must be taken into
631 Conclu | as a neighbour even the littlest among the children of men (
632 II,4 | for the generation of new lives, according to laws inscribed
633 Conclu | the children of men (Cf . Lk 10: 2 9-37). Here Christ'
634 II (39) | Loc. cit., ibid., 489.~
635 II,7 | a new person. It is only logical therefore to address an
636 II,2 | love between spouses who long to obviate a sterility which
637 II,8 | does not for this reason lose its value. Physical sterility
638 Conclu | possibility of living and loving with that dignity and liberty
639 Intro,3 | likened to those existing in lower forms of life. Such values
640 Intro (20)| Discourse to the Saint Luke Medical-Biological Union,
641 II (36) | In Matthaeum homiliae, LXII, 19, 1: PG 58 597; ST LEO
642 II (36) | Domino: DS 778; COUNCIL OF LYONS II, IV Session: DS 860;
643 Fw | specific replies to the main questions being asked in
644 II,5 | intention is not sufficient for making a positive moral evaluation
645 I,3 | is the healing of various maladies such as those stemming from
646 Intro,2 | own image and likeness: "male and female he created them" (
647 I,2 | foetuses which are affected by malformations or which are carriers of
648 I,6 | MADE ON OTHER PROCEDURES OF MANIPULATING EMBRYOS CONNECTED WITH THE "
649 II (51) | Response of the Holy Office, 17 March 1897: DS 3323; POPE PIUS
650 II,5 | ET fertilization is not marked by all that ethical negativity
651 Intro (3) | PAUL VI, Homily during the Mass closing the Holy Year, 25
652 I,5 | he sets himself up as the master of the destiny of others
653 II,4 | cooperate as servants and not as masters in the work of the Creator
654 I,5 | as disposable "biological material". In the usual practice
655 II,1 | expression of their paternity and maternity, (35) By reason of the vocation
656 III | norms of the moral law in matters concerning human rights,
657 II (36) | 965-967; ST CHRYSOSTOM, In Matthaeum homiliae, LXII, 19, 1: PG
658 II,2 | origins and can hinder the maturing of his personal identity.
659 | me
660 Intro (20)| Discourse to the Saint Luke Medical-Biological Union, 12 November 1944:
661 II,3 | an objective failure to meet the obligations of maternal
662 Intro (11)| PAUL II, Discourse to the members of the 35th General Assembly
663 III | fundamental rights one should mention in this regard: ~a) every
664 Intro (3) | II, Encyclical Dives in Misericordia, 30: AAS 72 (1980) 1224. ~
665 II (36) | refer to it: Mt 19: 4-6; Mk: 10:5-8; Eph 5: 31. Cf.
666 Conclu | theologians, and above all to moralists, that they study more deeply
667 | Moreover
668 III | family, embryo banks, post mortem insemination and "surrogate
669 I,2 | directly to induce expectant mothers to submit to prenatal diagnosis
670 II,2 | constitute understandable motivations; but subjectively good intentions
671 Intro (22)| and the evaluation of the motives: the objective criteria
672 III | objects of experimentation, be mutilated or destroyed with the excuse
673 I,4 | they cannot be subjected to mutilation or to autopsies if their
674 | my
675 III | to govern humanity in the name of the biological discoveries
676 I (26) | participants in the Twenty-third National Congress of Italian Catholic
677 II,6 | moral conscience "does not necessarily proscribe the use of certain
678 I,1 | confirmed, if confirmation were needed, by recent findings of human
679 Intro,2 | to man's ruin. "Our era needs such wisdom more than bygone
680 II,5 | marked by all that ethical negativity found in extra-conjugal
681 Conclu | Samaritan, to recognize as a neighbour even the littlest among
682 Intro,2 | applications are morally neutral; on the other hand one cannot
683 Conclu | the reasons for his true nobility; only in this way can the
684 I,4 | No objective, even though noble in itself, such as a foreseeable
685 | nonetheless
686 Intro,3 | origin and destiny. This norm must be applied in a particular
687 III | to those very grave risks noted previously. The possible
688 I (*) | the cell produced when the nuclei of the two gametes have
689 II | the part of the woman: a number of ova are withdrawn, fertilized
690 I | enables us to respond to the numerous moral problems posed by
691 Conclu | Archbishop of Caesarea in Numidia Secretary~
692 II,7 | procreation. The medical and nursing staff of Catholic hospitals
693 III | addition, "conscientious objection" vis-à-vis such laws must
694 II,6 | it to reach its natural objectives, it can be morally acceptable.
695 III | stage, should be treated as objects of experimentation, be mutilated
696 I (27) | The obligation to avoid disproportionate
697 II,7 | safeguard and promote a diligent observance of the moral norms recalled
698 I (*) | hypothesis arising from previous observations. ~2) By experimentation
699 Intro,1 | commandments and the grace to observe them: and it is likewise
700 Intro,4 | which must be recognized and observed. For this reason one cannot
701 II,2 | between spouses who long to obviate a sterility which cannot
702 II | destruction of human embryos occurs too often. This is significant:
703 I,6 | cryopreservation - constitutes an offence against the respect due
704 I,6 | situation in which further offences and manipulation are possible. ~
705 III | of violence and a serious offense to the equality, dignity
706 II,4 | sponsal meanings" and parental ones.(43) The conjugal act by
707 I,4 | research must refrain from operations on live embryos, unless
708 II,8 | called to find in it an opportunity for sharing in a particular
709 I,4 | womb. The informed consent ordinarily required for clinical experimentation
710 II,4 | true mutual love and its ordination towards man's exalted vocation
711 Intro (2) | Assembly of the United Nations Organization, 4 October 1965: AAS 57 (
712 I,2 | authorities or of scientific organizations which in any way were to
713 Fw | third part will offer some orientations on the relationships between
714 II,2 | relationship with his parental origins and can hinder the maturing
715 II | of the woman: a number of ova are withdrawn, fertilized
716 II,2 | sterility which cannot be overcome in any other way constitute
717 II,5 | there is no other way of overcoming the sterility which is a
718 Intro,1 | also by the Love which she owes to man, helping him to recognize
719 II,8 | considered as an object of ownership: rather, a child is a gift, "
720 Intro,3 | says (Gaudium et Spes, 14, par.1). It is on the basis of
721 I,6 | twin fission", cloning or parthenogenesis are to be considered contrary
722 Intro (18)| II, Discourse to priests participating in a seminar on "Responsible
723 III | must commit themselves, particularly within their prof essional
724 II (36) | directly and through the passages of the New Testament that
725 III | recognized. A movement of passive resistence to the legitimation
726 II,1 | concrete expression of their paternity and maternity, (35) By reason
727 I (31) | it is permitted, with the patient's consent, to have recourse
728 I,3 | medical interventions on patients, one must uphold as licit
729 III | must provide appropriate penal sanctions for every deliberate
730 II,8 | child, but only the right to perform those natural acts which
731 II,7 | order to facilitate its performance or in order to enable it
732 | perhaps
733 Intro,2 | future of the world stands in peril unless wiser people are
734 II,1 | image of their love, the permanent sign of their conjugal union,
735 I,2 | procedures. Such diagnosis is permissible, with the consent of the
736 I,2 | in the mother's womb. It permits, or makes it possible to
737 I,1 | not human already. To this perpetual evidence ... modern genetic
738 Intro,1 | in order to help them persevere along the same path - that
739 III | society and the State: they pertain to human nature and are
740 Conclu | Feast of the Chair of St. Peter, the Apostle. ~JOSEPH Card.
741 I (*) | a given treatment (e.g. pharmacological, teratogenic, surgical,
742 Fw | intervene in the initial phase of the life of a human being
743 I | human being in the first phases of his life and upon the
744 I (*) | systematic observation of a given phenomenon in the human field or at
745 I,1 | itself to an affirmation of a philosophical nature, but it constantly
746 II (36) | Epist. ad Rusticum, 4: PL 54, 1204; INNOCENT III,
747 I,6 | shelter and gestation, thus placing them in a situation in which
748 II (36) | 1949) 559. According to the plan of the Creator, "A man leaves
749 II,4 | anthropological and moral planes, and it throws light on
750 I,2 | submit to prenatal diagnosis planned for the purpose of eliminating
751 I,6 | embryos, such as attempts or plans for fertilization between
752 Intro,4 | transmission of the life of plants and animals" (15) ~Advances
753 Conclu | undersigned Prefect after the plenary session of the Congregation
754 III | consensus on such essential points and to consolidating this
755 Conclu | of the Faith, the Supreme Pontiff, John Paul II, approved
756 I (29) | Address to a Meeting of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, 23
757 II,8 | to other families and to poor or handicapped children".(59)
758 I,1 | its place and to be in a position to act". (25) This teaching
759 II,4 | and it throws light on the positions of the Magisterium with
760 Intro,3 | For this reason marriage possesses specific goods and values
761 III | the family, embryo banks, post mortem insemination and "
762 II,5 | in which it is regularly practised, IVF and ET involves the
763 Fw (*) | The terms "zygote", "pre-embryo", "embryo" and "foetus"
764 II,5 | situation in which every precaution were taken to avoid the
765 I,3 | delicate and particular precautions in the case of embryonic
766 II,5 | conjugal acts which may precede or follow it.(48) ~It has
767 Intro,1 | an understanding of his precepts. ~
768 Conclu | and women of tomorrow. The precise indications which are offered
769 Intro,4 | fundamental " value of life, precisely because upon this physical
770 I,6 | according to sex or other predetermined qualities. These manipulations
771 II,5 | relations (47) and cannot be preferred to the specific acts of
772 II | previously collected sperm. ~A preliminary point for the moral evaluation
773 II,5 | of life - is a necessary prerequisite from the moral point of
774 III | could be deprived of his prerogatives by researchers claiming
775 I,1 | use of reason a personal presence at the moment of this first
776 I,1 | the Church for her part presented once again to modern man
777 I,6 | carried out in order to preserve the life of an embryo -
778 II,4 | procreative, the conjugal act preserves in its fullness the sense
779 II,5 | the technical action which presides over fertilization. Such
780 I,4 | regards experimentation, and presupposing the general distinction
781 Intro,2 | others, or, worse still, from prevailing ideologies. Thus science
782 II,8 | research with the aim of preventing the causes of sterility
783 Intro (18)| JOHN PAUL II, Discourse to priests participating in a seminar
784 Intro,1 | and promotion of man, his "primary and fundamental right" to
785 I,2 | life and as an abuse of the prior rights and duties of the
786 II (36) | Cf. ATHENAGORAS, Legatio pro christianis, 33: PG 6, 965-
787 II,4 | throws light on the moral problem of homologous artificial
788 I,2 | same intention of possibly proceeding to an abortion. So too the
789 Intro,1 | mystery of man"; (6) by proclaiming the Gospel of salvation,
790 I,5 | existence. It is immoral to produce human embryos destined to
791 I,6 | therapeutic but are aimed at producing human beings selected according
792 II,4 | desired or conceived as the product of an intervention of medical
793 III | particularly within their prof essional field and in the
794 Intro (17)| 1950) 575; POPE PAUL VI, Professio Fidei: AAS 60 (1968) 436. ~
795 Conclu | to scientists and medical professionals, to jurists and politicians.
796 II,8 | Nevertheless, whatever its cause or prognosis, sterility is certainly
797 III | marriage. Legislation must also prohibit, by virtue of the support
798 I,6 | animals, or the hypothesis or project of constructing artificial
799 I (*) | inductive-deductive process which aims at promoting the systematic observation
800 II,8 | everyone must understand and properly evaluate. ~On the part of
801 II,2 | objective and inalienable properties of marriage or respectful
802 II,2 | regard to that essential property of marriage which is its
803 I (27) | clarification concerning "proportionate risk" is also to be kept
804 II,7 | WHAT MORAL CRITERION CAN BE PROPOSED WITH REGARD TO MEDICAL INTERVENTION
805 II,6 | conscience "does not necessarily proscribe the use of certain artificial
806 I,1 | This doctrinal reminder provides the fundamental criterion
807 I,5 | be reduced in worth to a pure and simple instrument for
808 Intro,1 | technology, it intends to put forward, by virtue of its
809 Intro,1 | Thus the Church once more puts forward the divine law in
810 I,6 | sex or other predetermined qualities. These manipulations are
811 II,5 | borrow its definitive moral quality from the totality of conjugal
812 II (54) | AAS 68 (1976) 86, which quotes the Pastoral Constitution
813 II | can lead to a system of radical eugenics. ~Nevertheless,
814 Intro (20)| November 1944: Discorsi e Radiomessaggi VI (1944-1945) 191-192. ~
815 Conclu | processes of human procreation raises very serious moral problems
816 Intro,2 | and will of God.(7) The rapid development of technological
817 Conclu | the Apostle. ~JOSEPH Card. RATZINGER ~Prefect ~ALBERTO BOVONE ~
818 II,6 | conjugal act or helps it to reach its natural objectives,
819 Intro,3 | John Paul II forcefully reaffirmed this to the World Medical
820 I,1 | nature, but it constantly reaffirms the moral condemnation of
821 Intro,3 | implicit but nonetheless real way, a moral significance
822 II,4 | mutual giving (45) which is realized in the conjugal act wherein
823 II,6 | namely the relationship which realizes 'the full sense of mutual
824 Intro,1 | go beyond the limits of a reasonable dominion over nature".(1)
825 Intro,3 | biologist or doctor can reasonably claim, by virtue of his
826 Fw | follows: an introduction will recall the fundamental principles,
827 I,1 | person. The Congregation recalls the teachings found in the
828 I (32) | worthy both of the subject receiving it and of the subjects transmitting
829 | recent
830 | recently
831 II | it themselves. The facts recorded and the cold logic which
832 Intro,1 | weaknesses: he is our Creator and Redeemer. May his spirit open men'
833 I,5 | for himself, and cannot be reduced in worth to a pure and simple
834 II,4 | that would be equivalent to reducing him to an object of scientific
835 II (36) | of the New Testament that refer to it: Mt 19: 4-6; Mk: 10:
836 III | rights, to ensuring the reform of morally unacceptable
837 I,4 | Medical research must refrain from operations on live
838 I,1 | the conclusions of science regarding the human embryo provide
839 II,5 | circumstances in which it is regularly practised, IVF and ET involves
840 III | ensure that the civil law is regulated according to the fundamental
841 II,3 | reasons which lead one to reject heterologous artificial
842 Intro,3 | interventions are not to be rejected on the grounds that they
843 II,5 | the traditional doctrine relating to the goods of marriage
844 I,2 | abnormality. The spouse or relatives or anyone else would similarly
845 I,4 | in the absence of other reliable forms of therapy, recourse
846 II,7 | clinics and who are often Religious will take special care to
847 I (31) | absence of other sufficient remedies, it is permitted, with the
848 II,8 | sterility and of being able to remedy them so that sterile couples
849 I,1 | to life. This doctrinal reminder provides the fundamental
850 Conclu | power, the Church of God reminds him of the reasons for his
851 Conclu | but rather to give it a renewed impulse in unrenounceable
852 Fw | Episcopates, does not intend to repeat all the Church's teaching
853 II,2 | relationships within the family has repercussions on civil society: what threatens
854 II,6 | hand, the procedure were to replace the conjugal act, it is
855 II,7 | procedure technologically replaces the conjugal act in order
856 I,6 | THE "TECHNIQUES OF HUMAN REPRODUCTION"? ~Techniques of fertilization
857 I,2 | illicit act if she were to request such a diagnosis with the
858 Intro,1 | human person be safeguarded. Requests for clarification and guidance
859 Intro,4 | death" (14) is a sign and requirement of the very inviolability
860 I,4 | Furthermore, the moral requirements must be safeguarded that
861 I,5 | By acting in this way the researcher usurps the place of God;
862 III | recognized. A movement of passive resistence to the legitimation of practices
863 II (47) | that the possibility of resorting to this means (artificial
864 I | mentioned above, enables us to respond to the numerous moral problems
865 II,1 | the vocation and social responsibilities of the person, the good
866 Intro,1 | Gospel of salvation, she reveals to man his dignity and invites
867 Intro,5 | this field too the light of Revelation: the doctrine concerning
868 I,2 | should the results conf rm the existence of a malformation
869 Conclu | who, by reason of their role and their commitment, can
870 Conclu | be published. ~Given at Rome, from the Congregation for
871 Intro,2 | conscience can only lead to man's ruin. "Our era needs such wisdom
872 I,3 | according to the deontological rules followed in the case of
873 II,2 | brings about and manifests a rupture between genetic parenthood,
874 II (36) | LEO THE GREAT, Epist. ad Rusticum, 4: PL 54, 1204; INNOCENT
875 II | the implanted embryos are sacrificed for various eugenic, economic
876 II,8 | find themselves in this sad situation are called to
877 I,5 | possibility of their being offered safe means of survival which
878 Intro,3 | Medical Association when he said: "Each human person, in
879 Intro (20)| PIUS XII, Discourse to the Saint Luke Medical-Biological
880 III | sometimes tolerate, for the sake of public order, things
881 Intro,1 | proclaiming the Gospel of salvation, she reveals to man his
882 Conclu | each and, like the good Samaritan, to recognize as a neighbour
883 III | LEGISLATION ~MUST RESPECT AND SANCTION IN THIS MATTER ~The inviolable
884 III | provide appropriate penal sanctions for every deliberate violation
885 II (36) | Encyclical Arcanum Divinae Sapientiae: ASS 12 (1879/80) 388-391;
886 Intro,3 | the Second Vatican Council says (Gaudium et Spes, 14, par.
887 I,4 | abortion and that the risk of scandal be avoided. Also, in the
888 II,6 | according to the words of Scripture, brings about union 'in
889 Conclu | Archbishop of Caesarea in Numidia Secretary~
890 I (27) | in mind in the following sections of the present Instruction,
891 III | upon public opinion, to securing in society the widest possible
892 II,4 | artificial fertilization, in seeking a procreation which is not
893 | seemed
894 III | eyes of many today; it is seen to be incapable of guaranteeing
895 I,6 | at producing human beings selected according to sex or other
896 II,4 | couple mutually express their self-gift at the same time expresses
897 Intro,3 | human person can achieve self-realization as a "unified totality":(9)
898 III | each individual and to the self-regulation of researchers cannot be
899 Intro (18)| priests participating in a seminar on "Responsible Procreation",
900 I,5 | to live and whom he will send to death and kills defenceless
901 II,4 | it is never permitted to separate these different aspects
902 II,4 | objectively effects an analogous separation between the goods and the
903 II,4 | the spouses cooperate as servants and not as masters in the
904 Intro,1 | with a mission to serve the "civilization of love" (3)
905 II,6 | for the conjugal act but serves to facilitate and to help
906 II,8 | occasion for other important services to the life of the human
907 Intro,3 | be thought of as simply a set of norms on the biological
908 I,6 | beings selected according to sex or other predetermined qualities.
909 Intro,3 | and woman the vocation to share in a special way in his
910 II,8 | in it an opportunity for sharing in a particular way in the
911 III | beginning to make an ever sharper impression upon the moral
912 II,8 | of believers is called to shed light upon and support the
913 I,6 | temporarily, of maternal shelter and gestation, thus placing
914 Intro,2 | they cannot of themselves show the meaning of existence
915 II,4 | the conjugal act is thus shown to be of great importance
916 I,2 | results: a diagnosis which shows the existence of a malformation
917 Intro,3 | nonetheless real way, a moral significance and responsibility. Pope
918 II (48) | A similar question was dealt with
919 I,2 | relatives or anyone else would similarly be acting in a manner contrary
920 Intro,3 | cannot be thought of as simply a set of norms on the biological
921 II,6 | is a personal action, a simultaneous and immediate cooperation
922 II,5 | way of fulfilling their sincere desire for a child. The
923 III | rights depend neither on single individuals nor on parents;
924 Intro,3 | in his absolutely unique singularity, is constituted not only
925 II,5 | For the same reasons the so-called "simple case", i.e. a homologous
926 III | responsible for aggravating these socially damaging situations of injustice.
927 I,1 | fundamental criterion for the solution of the various problems
928 Intro,1 | in order to clarify and solve the moral problems raised
929 | something
930 II,4 | fertilization is licitly sought when it is the result of
931 I,1 | problems arise. Can one speak of a right to experimentation
932 I,2 | an abortion. So too the specialist would be guilty of illicit
933 III | of many, especially among specialists in the biomedical sciences. ~
934 II,7 | person must respect the specifically human values of sexuality.(55)
935 I (*) | it is deemed necessary to specify the exact meaning given
936 III | public morality.(60) In no sphere of life can the civil law
937 II,4 | which clearly involves both "sponsal meanings" and parental ones.(43)
938 I,2 | malformation or abnormality. The spouse or relatives or anyone else
939 Conclu | CONCLUSION~The spread of technologies of intervention
940 II,7 | The medical and nursing staff of Catholic hospitals and
941 II,4 | be evaluated according to standards of control and dominion.
942 Intro,2 | the future of the world stands in peril unless wiser people
943 I (32) | subjects transmitting it. This statement is to be borne in mind also
944 I,1 | specific identity - the word "status" is used - of the human
945 I,3 | various maladies such as those stemming from chromosomal defects
946 II (*) | and who is genetically a stranger to the embryo because it
947 Intro,3 | come to the aid of a person stricken by illness and infirmity
948 II,8 | This desire can be even stronger if the couple is affected
949 I,2 | and the mother, without subjecting them to disproportionate
950 I (32) | into existence, can claim a subjective right to begin to exist;
951 II,2 | understandable motivations; but subjectively good intentions do not render
952 I,2 | induce expectant mothers to submit to prenatal diagnosis planned
953 II | fertilization (II, 1-3), * and subsequently those linked with homologous
954 II,5 | technical activity determine the success of the procedure. Such fertilization
955 Fw (*) | the vocabulary of biology successive stages of the development
956 I (*) | at present unknown or not sufficiently known, of a given treatment (
957 II,4 | conjugal act which is per se suitable for the generation of children
958 III | the excuse that they are superfluous or incapable of developing
959 II,5 | and ET certainly cannot supply for the absence of sexual
960 III | vis-à-vis such laws must be supported and recognized. A movement
961 III | have authorized the direct suppression of innocents: the moment
962 II (49) | Cf. supra: I, 1 ff. ~
963 Intro (1) | Italian Society of General Surgery, 27 October 1980: AAS 72 (
964 II | beings and can lead to a system of radical eugenics. ~Nevertheless,
965 I (*) | which aims at promoting the systematic observation of a given phenomenon
966 Intro,5 | doctrine concerning man taught by the Magisterium contains
967 Intro,4 | and the woman. But what is technically possible is not for that
968 II,7 | that a medical procedure technologically replaces the conjugal act
969 Conclu | CONCLUSION~The spread of technologies of intervention in the processes
970 I,6 | depriving them, at least temporarily, of maternal shelter and
971 Intro,1 | also expose him "to the temptation to go beyond the limits
972 I,1 | defended in its integrity, tended and cared for, to the extent
973 I (*) | treatment (e.g. pharmacological, teratogenic, surgical, etc.).
974 II | fertilization of an ovum in a test-tube (in vitro fertilization)
975 II (36) | the passages of the New Testament that refer to it: Mt 19:
976 I,4 | procedures not yet fully tested can be licit (31) ~The
977 II,8 | marriage, and is a living testimony of the mutual giving of
978 Fw (*) | usage is clarified by the text (cf I, 1).
979 Intro,1 | processes of procreation. Thanks to the progress of the biological
980 III | parents. To each of these two themes it is necessary here to
981 II (47) | would be erroneous ... to think that the possibility of
982 II | exempt one from a further and thorough ethical study of the techniques
983 II,2 | repercussions on civil society: what threatens the unity and stability
984 Intro,5 | contains many elements which throw light on the problems being
985 Conclu | Prefect ~ALBERTO BOVONE ~Titular Archbishop of Caesarea in
986 | together
987 III | of abortion and juridical tolerance of unmarried couples makes
988 Conclu | for the men and women of tomorrow. The precise indications
989 III | act from which the person took his of her origin. Among
990 Intro (22)| criteria which respect the total meaning of mutual self-giving
991 I,4 | or commercial purposes is totally opposed to human dignity.
992 Intro,3 | and through the body, one touches the person himself in his
993 II,5 | in conformity with the traditional doctrine relating to the
994 I,4 | persons, all commercial trafficking must be considered illicit
995 II,7 | moment in which the spouses transmit life to a new person. It
996 I (32) | receiving it and of the subjects transmitting it. This statement is to
997 I (*) | sufficiently known, of a given treatment (e.g. pharmacological, teratogenic,
998 II (36) | Session: DS 860; COUNCIL OF TRENT, XXIV , Session: DS 1798.
999 II,8 | is certainly a difficult trial. The community of believers
1000 I (26) | Discourse to participants in the Twenty-third National Congress of Italian
1001 I,3 | individual survival. Whatever the type of medical, surgical or
1002 II (*) | techniques can be of two types ~a) Heterologous IVF and
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