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...Ramsey and others, genetic surgery?repairing, replacing or suppressing a "sick" gene?could be profoundly moral. Depending on the defect, genetic surgery before or after birth could prevent abnormality, and also insure that it was not passed on. Moral Theologian Bernard Häring of Rome's Accademia Alfonsiana applauds basic remedial intervention as "corrective foresight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: THE SPIRIT: Who Will Make the Choices of Life and Death? | 4/19/1971 | See Source »

Another of Noonan's contributors, German Redemptorist Father Bernard Haring, a moral theologian at Rome's Accademia Alfonsiana, urges Catholics to avoid squabbling with others over such "hard cases" as the victim of rape or the endangered mother and concentrate on the "large areas of agreement" they share with less dogmatic foes of abortion. Many who would permit abortion in exceptional cases would agree, for instance, on the immorality of abortion for mere convenience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Making the Ethical Case Against Abortion | 3/29/1971 | See Source »

Roman Catholic Moral Theologian Bernard Raring, professor at Alfonsiana Academy in Rome's Pontifical Lateran University, suggests that a valid marriage might never grow into a sacramental marriage. "If a marriage is dead," he argues, "it has no sacramental value. Even if it were a valid marriage, it is no longer valid if it has died." Three Jesuits at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University have even asked whether sacramental marriage vows, like solemn religious vows, might not be subject to church dispensation. Monsignor Pospishil, in Divorce and Remarriage, indeed flatly affirms that the church's "power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Debate over Catholic Marriage | 7/6/1970 | See Source »

...learn the subtle ways of Catholicism's capital and to study under some of the church's best minds: English Jesuit Frederick Copleston, a distinguished historian of philosophy, or German Redemptorist Bernard Haring, generally considered Catholicism's top moral theologian, who teaches at the Academia Alfonsiana (a branch of the Lateran). Otherwise, the training is not much better-and in some ways worse -than what they would receive back home. While U.S. seminaries have all but abandoned Latin for lectures and brought their curriculums closer to those of secular liberal-arts colleges, the courses at Roman universities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: Seminary Town | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

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