While maintaining its stance against IVF (In Vitro Fertilization), the Vatican issued a new document May 30, 2023, sounding an alarm about declining birth rates and touting alternatives to methods of artificial reproduction the church sees as morally unacceptable, the Crux website reports.
The text also reiterates the Church's traditional opposition to contraception, despite speculation in some quarters that Pope Francis might be rethinking the teaching of St. Paul VI in his 1968 encyclical "Humanae Vitae" condemning artificial birth control.
Called the Global Family Compact, the document is an initiative of the Political Academy of Social Sciences and the Vatican's Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life consisting of four main action points, and was accompanied by a message from Pope Francis.
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