One of the things that puzzles me the most about the Catholic church is it's insistence on using all sort of technology at the end of life (see it's insistence of keeping people on ventilators forever when they are brain dead) and at the same time be against all form of technology to help life at it's inception.
The article is in Italian from the Italian newspaper "La Stampa". In a nutshell, the Vatican experts on sin are currently meeting to analyze new "modern" forms of sin and undergoing IVF will probably be listed as one of them.
"My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?" --Letter from Galileo Galilei to Johannes Kepler
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