Instruction Dignitas Personae on Certain Bioethical Questions

[Papal Encyclicals Online webmaster]

The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith has just released
a new doctrinal document titled "Instruction Dignitas Personae on
Certain Bioethical Questions" which deals with a number of questions
and provides a moral analysis of a number of relatively new bioethical
issues relating to procreation and genetic treatment.

I've added links to these new documents on the home page of Papal
Encyclicals Online. http://www.papalencyclicals.net

Among the questions in this document are:

1. Techniques for Assisting Fertility
2. In Vitro Fertilization and the Deliberate Destruction of Embryos
3. Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI)
4. Freezing Embryos
5. The Freezing of Oocytes
6. The Reduction of Embryos
7. Preimplantation Diagnosis
8. New Forms of Interception and Contragestation

We are still waiting on the release of Pope Benedict XVI's third
encyclical, "Caritas in Veritate" (Love in Truth) and will add this
document to the site as soon as possible.

Pax Christi and Merry Christmas to all.