While confusion has arisen in recent days in the media over "the moral permissibility" of using the COVID-19 vaccines just announced by Pfizer Inc. and Moderna, it is not "immoral to be vaccinated with them," the chairmen of the U.S. bishops' doctrine
As good news continues to come in regarding the successful trial of COVID-19 vaccines, Father Harrison Ayre asks: Can Catholics in good conscience take these vaccinations? Father Ayre writes that while the vaccines being produced and tested by Moderna and Pfizer do
Catholic pro-life leaders say they are seeing some progress in the development of vaccines with the use of ethical animal cell lines instead of cell lines derived from abortions.
A case in point is the decision by Sanofi Pasteur to no longer use
The chairman of the U.S. bishops' pro-life committee Aug. 20 praised the National Institutes of Health's Human Fetal Tissue Research Ethics Advisory Board for its decision to withhold funds from 13 of 14 research proposals that involved the use of fetal tissue.
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There is "no absolute duty" to boycott any COVID-19 vaccine produced with the help of cells derived from aborted fetuses, said a researcher from a Catholic bioethics institute. Scientists from the University of Oxford, England, are conducting human trials of a possible
What does the Church teach on cloning, DNA manipulation and stem cell research? Monsignor Charles Pope explains that the Church does not ban any of these scientific practices. However, certain areas of each are problematic. Human cloning, he explains, is forbidden because
Vaccinating our children is again in the middle of a national debate about public health, parental responsibility and personal rights. Many Catholic parents are wondering what the Church teaches on vaccination — especially about the moral implications of using certain vaccines —
In theory, an artificial womb could help save the lives of premature babies and even give some frozen embryos the opportunity to be born while changing the contours of the nation’s abortion debate. But as with anything else, the emerging medical technology
Positive. Family. Joy. These three words sum up the sentiment shared by teachers, students and parents to describe the experience of Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School in the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia. After 10 years of educating young people,
It’s hard not to think about end-of-life issues these days. Assisted-suicide legislation is popping up around the country. Euthanasia is becoming the new cause celebre among Hollywood’s elite. And in Florida the heart-wrenching battle over whether to withdraw nutrition and hydration from