Time time to leave the catacombs!

This book was written in the hope that it may interest those in the Catholic world, who care about reproductive health.   It documents the struggle of the many people who have contributed, over a period of more than fifty years, to the development of reproductive medicine at the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven) in Belgium.

New technologies, developing at an unbelievable pace, have profoundly changed many areas of reproductive medicine including fertility control, infertility treatment, embryology, prenatal diagnosis and foetal surgery.

These fields of modern reproductive medicine are all flourishing at Catholic universities in the Low Countries, Belgium and The Netherlands.

However, contraceptive techniques, assisted reproductive technologies, preimplantation genetic diagnosis and embryonic stem cell research are deeply dividing Catholic universities around the world.

Are Catholic universities in the Low Countries heading silently towards a schism with Rome?

Or is modern reproductive medicine based on personalist ethics and practiced at progressive Catholic universities compatible with the Catholic doctrine? If so, has the time come for these universities to take a stand and leave the catacombs?

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