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The Word Magazine, September 2005 Today in the western world the problem of involuntary childlessness, through infertility or recurrent miscarriage, is an issue that affects many couples… » Click here to read this article

By John B. Shea M.D., FRCP(C) From CatholicInsight.com, Dec 28, 2005 In 1968, Pope Paul VI taught that a husband and wife, in full recognition of their own duties toward God, themselves, the family and society, should respect the fact that in the task of the transmission of life, they must conform their activity to [...]

More than 400 health care professionals from 11 countries and 35 states gathered to learn about NaProTECHNOLOGY, a new reproductive and gynecologic science, at the American Academy of FertilityCare Professionals’ 23rd annual conference July 21-24 in Omaha.. The theme of the four-day conference, sponsored by the Pope Paul VI Institute for the Study of Human [...]

Dr. Thomas Hilgers, director of the Pope Paul VI Institute in Omaha, said his life was changed after reading Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical “Humanae Vitae” as a medical student at Creighton University. The controversial encyclical, which reaffirmed the Catholic Church’s ban on contraception, challenged people in the medical and scientific professions to become directly [...]

Stephanie and Anthony Epolite had pretty much given up hope of having a baby. For four years the California couple tried in vitro fertilization, but after two unsuccessful attempts, they were emotionally, physically, spiritually and financially spent.. “Starting our family was the ultimate emotional, psychological and spiritual challenge for us,” Anthony told health care professionals [...]