The Vatican press office announced that the Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith's declaration on human dignity, said to include a faith-based critique of "gender ideologies" and surrogacy, will be released April 8.
Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the dicastery, and Msgr.
A reader writes: “Wasn’t Mary a surrogate mother? Did she not bear a son for someone other than her husband, Joseph? Jesus was the Son of God. Was he not conceived by artificial insemination? She didn’t have intercourse with anyone. … I
In January, Pope Francis condemned surrogacy, and in February, the Alabama Supreme Court declared that frozen embryos are children. Together, these events thrust the Church’s condemnation of IVF and surrogacy into the public eye. Our Sunday Visitor columnist Kenneth Craycraft explains the
"Donum Vitae" is a document that, nearly 40 years ago, made explicit the church's teaching about in vitro fertilization and related practices, including gestational surrogacy -- a teaching that in January 2024 made headlines after Pope Francis called for a worldwide ban
Bishop Robert E. Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, the head of the U.S. bishops' committee dealing with family life, voiced support Jan. 10 for Pope Francis' recent remarks condemning gestational surrogacy as "a grave violation of the dignity of the woman and the
"I deem deplorable the practice of so-called surrogate motherhood, which represents a grave violation of the dignity of the woman and the child, based on the exploitation of situations of the mother's material needs. A child is always a gift and never
In a heart-wrenching story out of California, a mother has gone public with her tragic experience as a surrogate, claiming that she was urged to terminate her pregnancy at 24 weeks after being diagnosed with breast cancer. Brittney Pearson signed a contract
Pornography is a danger to public health, and it threatens the dignity of all men and women, Pope Francis said.
"The dignity of men and women is also threatened by the inhumane and increasingly widespread practice of 'wombs for rent,' in which women,
Border closures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 have highlighted another "pathology" in modern Ukraine: the practice of commercial surrogacy, said the country's Catholic bishops. Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv-Halych, head of the Eastern-rite Ukrainian Catholic Church, and Archbishop Mieczyslaw Mokrzycki of
Question: How does one date a church? When the cornerstone was laid? When it was dedicated? For example, the cornerstone at my parish says 1926, but the church itself wasn’t dedicated until 1931. — Mary via email Answer: It depends on what