References
- Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Instruction on Respect for Human Life in Its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation: Replies to Certain Questions of the Day (Braintree, MA.: Pope John XXIII Medical Moral Research and Education Center, 1987), II , B, 4 (p. 16). The internal citation is from Pope Paul VI’s Humanae Vitae, n. 12.
- Ibid.; the internal citation is from Pope Pius XII , “Discourse to those taking part in the Second Naples World Congress on Fertility and Human Sexuality,” 19 May 1956; AAS 48 (196) 470.
- Ibid., II. B, 4 (p. 16).
- Ibid., II. B, 5 (p. 17).
- Ibid., II. B, 5 (p. 18).
- For a fuller discussion of this matter. see Ronald Lawler. O.F.M. Cap., Joseph M. Boyle. Jr., and William E. May. Catholic Sexual Ethics: A Summary, Explanation, and Defense (Huntington. IN.: Our Sunday Visitor Press, 1985), pp. 176-209.
- Here see St. Augustine. De genesi ad literam . 9.7; PL 34:397.
- Here see Gaudium et Spes, n. 48.
- Here see Gaudium et Spes, nn. 50. 51; Pope Paul VI . Humanae Vitae, n. 9.
- On this see Humanae Vitae, n. 9; cf. La wler. Boyle. and May. op. cit. pp. 172-173.
- A full discussion of this is given by Lawler. Boyle. and May. op. cit. pp. 151-167.
- Classic sources for the difference between transitive and immanent activity and the significance of this difference are: Aristotle. Metaphysics Bk. 9. c. 8. 1050a23-1050bl; St. Thomas Aquinas. In IX Metaphysicorum. Lect. 8. n. 1865; Summa Theologiae, 1,4,2, ad 2; 1, 14, 5, ad I; I, 18, 1.
- Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Bio-Ethical Issues, In Vitro Fetrilization: Morality and Public Policy (London: Catholic Information Services. 1983). n. 23 .
- Ibid., n. 24.