THE EMBRYO OF THE MESSIAH The “auroral” person

The doctrinal command of the Church, the way today it is expressed in the bioethics statements, makes a big theorical mistake, misunderstanding the person with the plenitude and completion. The person is actually personalization, that is process, starting from the embryo, germinal or initial person. “Auroral” person, using a word that Benedetto Croce used to love. So the embryo has its rights, but not all. Otherwise, for instance, it would have the right to be baptized, just like the newborn baby. At the same time the embryo is a real person, so a coherent church should adore the embryo of Jesus the way it adores the one of the Virgin Mary, in the dogma of the Holy Conception. The dynamic and analogical concept of person, as well as the concept of a relatively personal embryo or initial person may be fairly criticized by laymen.

Priest Dr. Franco Ratti

Issued on:

  • The newspaper “La Repubblica-Bari” 8th March 2005
  • The newspaper “Corriere del Mezzogiorno”15thMarch 2005
  • The newspaper “Corriere dell’Irpinia” 10th March 2005
  • The periodical “Portanuova” – n.70 – April 2005
  • The periodical “Sulla Strada” – n.61 -March 2005

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