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PONTIFICIA ACADEMIA PRO VITA

"THE DIGNITY OF HUMAN PROCREATION AND REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES:

anthropological and ethical aspects"

X GENERAL ASSEMBLY
FEBRUARY 19-22, 2004

VATICAN CITY
NEW SYNOD HALL

FEBRUARY 19, 2004

THE COMMEMORATION DAY
OF THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDATION
(February 11, 1994) OF
THE PONTIFICIA ACADEMIA PRO VITA

PROGRAM

Thursday, 19 February 2004

8.00 Holy Mass: Casa S. Marta. Chapel of the Holy Spirit

President: His Eminence Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragán

MORNING SESSION

9.30 Ten Years of Activity

President: Prof. Juan de Dios Vial Correa

10.00 The Spiritual and Moral Figure of Prof. Jérôme Lejeune

His Eminence Cardinal Fiorenzo Angelini

10.30 The Figure of Prof. Jérôme Lejeune as a Researcher and Scientist

Dr. Jean-Marie Le Méné

11.00 Break

11.30 The Teaching of the Holy Father John Paul II on Human Life

H.E. Msgr. Willem Jacobus Eijk

13.00 Lunch

AFTERNOON SESSION

16.00 Concert of the “Coro Cappella” of the Pontifical Roman Senior Seminary, conducted by Msgr. Marco Frisina

N.B. A Special Audience granted by the Holy Father John Paul II has been requested for the Members of the PAV and for those Invited to the Celebration of the Commemoration Day. The time of this audience will be made known.

Man’s Responsibility for Life

“To defend and promote life, to show reverence and love for it, is a task which God entrusts to every man, calling him as his living image to share in his own lordship over the world: «God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth’» (Gen 1:28). The biblical text clearly shows the breadth and depth of the lordship which God bestows on man. It is a matter first of all of dominion over the earth and over every living creature… (cf. Wis 9:1, 2-3; cf. Ps 8:7-9)”
(Evangelium vitae, 42).

“A certain sharing by man in God’s lordship is also evident in the specific responsibility which he is given for human life as such. It is a responsibility which reaches its highest point in the giving of life through procreation by man and woman in marriage. As the Second Vatican Council teaches: «God himself who said, ‘It is not good for man to be alone’ (Gen 2:18) and ‘who made man from the beginning male and female’ (Mt 19:4), wished to share with man a certain special participation in his own creative work. Thus he blessed male and female saying: ‘Increase and multiply’ (Gen 1:28)»”
(Gaudium et spes, 50).

“By speaking of ‘a certain special participation’ of man and woman in the ‘creative work’ of God, the Council wishes to point out that having a child is an event which is deeply human and full of religious meaning, insofar as it involves both the spouses, who form ‘one flesh’ (Gen 2:24), and God who makes himself present. As I wrote in my Letter to Families: «When a new person is born of the conjugal union of the two, he brings with him into the world a particular image and likeness of God himself: the genealogy of the person is inscribed in the very biology of generation. In affirming that the spouses, as parents, cooperate with God the Creator in conceiving and giving birth to a new human being, we are not speaking merely with reference to the laws of biology. Instead, we wish to emphasize that God himself is present in human fatherhood and motherhood quite differently than he is present in all other instances of begetting ‘on earth’. Indeed God alone is the source of that ‘image and likeness’ which is proper to the human being, as it was received at Creation. Begetting is the continuation of Creation» (Gratissimam sane, 9)”
(Evangelium vitae, 43).

Program

Friday, 20 February 2004

8.00 Holy Mass: Casa S. Marta. Chapel of the Holy Spirit

President: His Eminence Cardinal Alfonso López Trujillo

Opening Session

9.30 Welcoming Remarks by the President of the Pontifical Academy for Life and Presentation of the New Members

Prof. Juan de Dios Vial Correa

9.50 Inauguration. The Biblical and Theological Meaning of Human Procreation.

His Eminence Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragán

10.30 Coffee Break

First Session

Moderator: H.E. Msgr. Elio Sgreccia

10.50 Fatherhood and Motherhood Faced with the Technologies of Human Artificial Procreation: Anthropological Considerations

Dr. Helen Watt

11.10 The Historical Development of the Technologies and their Impact on Human Procreation

Prof. Adriano Bompiani

11.30 Discussion and Possible Communications by the Academicians (10’)

13.00 Lunch

Second Session

Moderator: Prof. P. Tadeusz Styczen

15.30 The Intrinsic Logic of the Actions of Artificial Procreation: The Separation of the Unitive Significance from the Procreative Significance of Human Sexuality. Ethical Considerations

Prof. Msgr. Livio Melina

15.50 Artificial Procreation and the Eugenic and Experimental Logics: Pre-implantation Diagnosis

Prof. Fr. Angelo Serra

16.10 The Human Embryo in the Applications of the Techniques of Artificial Procreation

Prof. Mónica López Barahona

16.30 Coffee break

16.50 Discussion and Possible Communications by the Academicians (10’)

19.30 Supper

Saturday, 21 February 2004

8.00 Holy Mass: Casa S. Marta. Chapel of the Holy Spirit

President: H.E. Msgr. Anthony Fisher

Third Session

Moderator: Prof. Corrado Manni

9.30 The Repercussions of Artificial Procreation on the Tasks and the Mission of Medicine

Prof. Gonzalo Herranz

9.50 The Psychological and Spiritual Repercussions of Artificial Procreation for Women and Families, and Alternative Anthropological Approaches

Prof. Peter Petersen

10.10 The Juridical Aspects in the Production of Laws in a Pluralistic Society for the Right to Life

Prof. Alicja Grzeskowiak

10.30 Coffee break

10.50 Catholic Legislators Faced with Proposals to Improve Unjust Laws on Artificial Procreation

Prof. Ángel Rodriguez Luño

11.10 Discussion and Possible Communications by the Academicians (10’)

13.00 Lunch

Fourth Session

Moderator: Dr. Philippe Schepens

15.30 Round Table: Prospects and Alternatives to Artificial Procreation: Medical and Surgical Therapies, Techniques Helping Procreation,Prevention, and Adoption:

– Ethical Counseling for the Sterile Couple

Prof. Maria Luisa Di Pietro (15’)

– Surgical Therapies for Sterility

Prof. Riccardo Marana (15’)

– The Prevention of Male Infertility

Prof. Aldo Isidori (15’)

– The Prevention of Infertility and Sterility in Women

Prof. Salvatore Mancuso (15’)

– Adoption as an Alternative Solution

Prof. José M. Serrano Ruiz Calderón (15’)

– “NaProTechnology”in the Evaluation and Treatment of Infertility

Prof. Thomas Hilgers (15’)

17.00 Coffee break

17.20 Discussion and Possible Communications by the Academicians (10’)

19.30 Supper

Sunday Morning, 22 February 2004

8.00 Holy Mass: Casa S. Marta. Chapel of the Holy Spirit

President H.E. Msgr. Willem Jacobus Eijk

Fifth Session
(Reserved to the Internal Life and Activities of the PAV)

Moderator: Prof. Juan de Dios Vial Correa

9.30 Communications by the President and Vice-President: the Life and Activities of the Academy

10.00 General Discussion of, and Proposals for Subjects for, the General Assembly of 2005

11.30 Coffee break

11.50 Presentation of the Draft of the Final Document to the Academicians

12.30 Conclusions

List of Presidents, Moderators and Speakers

– His Eminence Cardinal Fiorenzo Angelini, Emeritus President of the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care.

– His Eminence Cardinal Javier LozanoBarragán, President of the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care.

– His Eminence Cardinal Alfonso López Trujillo, President of the Pontifical Council for the Family.

– H.E. Msgr. Anthony Fisher, Director and Professor of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family, Melbourne Campus.

– H.E. Msgr. Willem Jacobus Eijk, Bishop of Groningen, The Netherlands; Professor of Moral Theology.

– Prof. Juan de Dios Vial Correa, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life. .

– H.E. Msgr. Elio Sgreccia, Vice-President of the Pontifical Academy for Life.

– Prof. Adriano Bompiani, Director of the “Paul VI” Institute of the Faculty of Medicine at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome.

– Prof. Maria Luisa Di Pietro, Associate Professor of Bioethics at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome.

– Prof. Alicja Grzeskowiak, Professor of Criminal Law at the Catholic - University of Lublin.

– Prof. Gonzalo Herranz, Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics in the Department of Biomedical Humanities at the University of Navarre.

– Prof. Thomas Hilgers, Director of the Pope Paul VI Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction, Omaha, Nebraska.

– Prof. Aldo Isidori, Ordinary Professor at the University “La Sapienza”, Rome.

– Dr. Jean-Marie Le Méné, President of the “Jérôme Lejeune” Foundation, Paris.

– Prof. Mónica López Barahona, Director of the Institute of Biochemistry at the University Center “Francisco de Victoria”, Madrid.

– Prof. Salvatore Mancuso, Director of the Department for Health Care for Women and Human Life at its Beginning, the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome.

– Prof. Corrado Manni, Emeritus Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Medical Care at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome.

– Prof. Riccardo Marana, Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome.

– Prof. Msgr. Livio Melina, Ordinary Professor of Moral Theology; Vice-President of the “John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family”, the Pontifical Lateran University, Rome.

– Prof. Peter Petersen, Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Psychosomatic Medicine, Gynecology Center, Higher School of Medicine, the University of Hannover.

– Prof. Fr. Ángel Rodriguez Luño, Permanent Professor of Fundamental Moral Theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome.

– Dr. Philippe Schepens, General Secretary of the World Federation of Doctors “Who Respect Human Life”.

– Prof. Fr. Angelo Serra, S.J., Emeritus Professor of Human Genetics at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome.

– Prof. José M. Serrano Ruiz Calderón, Professor of Law at the University “Complutense”, Madrid.

– Prof. Fr. Tadeusz Styczen, S.D.B., Ordinary Professor of Ethics at the Catholic University of Lublin.

– Dr. Helen Watt, Director of the “Linacre Centre”, London.

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