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Issue casts long shadow in halls of government and in Vatican, obscures counter right to health Mark Waymack made an important contribution to the stem cell debate with his focus [...]

Church condemns practice that has accounted for 300,000 births worldwide Dawn Meadows had been married just a year when she and her husband decided to undergo in vitro fertilization at [...]

Breakthrough reveals cells from adults may be as useful as embryonic cells Stem cells, hailed as the greatest medical miracle since antibiotics, yet the new lightning rod for the abortion [...]

Former Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating resigned last month as chair of the U.S. bishops' National Review Board, which monitors the enforcement of their sexual-abuse policy adopted a year ago in [...]

Two of the most troubling aspects of institutional Catholicism are a lack of compassion for its own and a reluctance to allow alternatives, even when these are clearly within the [...]

Somewhere in the curriculum of Catholic high schools in Camden, N.J., we presume there is a course that covers the church's teachings on labor, on the dignity of work, on [...]

Given Pope John Paul II's recent admonitions to U.S. Catholics to work harder on behalf of the marginalized and given the political climate's continued drift rightward, it appears increasingly clear [...]

A woman whose damaged uterus could pose a severe threat to her health in the event of a future pregnancy is not permitted to have a tubal ligation or hysterectomy [...]

NEW YORK - The Roman Catholic Church became the focal point of disagreement here as it continues to object to major sections of a U.N document being negotiated here this [...]

Forgotten or buried inside most newspapers and receiving scant, if any, coverage on television last week, was a report with mind-numbing implications for the planet. A new study shows the [...]

Try as we might to starve, shoot, bomb and club each other into oblivion, and no matter how many deadly disasters and lethal epidemics we endure, there is, according to [...]

DAYTON, Ohio -- Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, Americans seem less frightened by the proliferation of nuclear weapons than they were in the early 1980s, said Auxiliary Bishop [...]