{"id":298,"date":"2007-06-23T19:31:10","date_gmt":"2007-06-23T23:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=298"},"modified":"2009-09-24T11:48:29","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T10:48:29","slug":"catholic-bioethics-still-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=298","title":{"rendered":"Catholic bioethics: still crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the people we had to talk to us at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.templeton-cambridge.org\/\">Templeton seminars<\/a> was an official Catholic bioethicist, who was put up against two <span class=\"caps\">FRS<\/span>s to defend or at least expound RC teaching on embryos. The session produced some real enlightenment &#8212; it turns out that the theory that life begins at conception was adopted first by Pius IX in 1869 and that his reasons had nothing to do with science or fact at all.<\/p>\n\n<p>The old Pope was preparing to define (infallibly) the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception. The idea that Mary had always been sinless seemed to him to demand that her sinless soul had been present from the moment of conception rather than (as Aquinas would have had it) after eighty days. This, however, was told us by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brian_Heap\">Brian Heap.<\/a> The official contribution &#8212; at least what I will remember &#8212; was one phrase: <span class=\"loony\">&#8220;Incarnation means that God was an embryo&#8221;<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the people we had to talk to us at the Templeton seminars was an official Catholic bioethicist, who was put up against two <span class=\"caps\">FRS<\/span>s to defend or at least expound RC teaching on embryos. The session produced some &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=298\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2097,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/2097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}