by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
To help end confusion caused by recent misrepresentations of Church teaching on abortion by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities has issued a two-page fact sheet explaining that the Church’s position in defense of human life has never changed.
By a vote of 191-1, the U.S. bishops recently adopted a statement on embryonic stem cell research in which they call experimentation on human embryos “the deliberate killing of human beings, a gravely immoral act.” It also condemned attempts to force citizens to pay for such research, saying it would “make taxpayers complicit in such killings . . .”
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
In a rare move, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has issued a public correction of articles about end-of-life issues written by two professors, including a bioethics professor at Loyola University of Chicago, because they misrepresent Catholic teaching.
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