Ethical issues: a critique
Catholic religion requires fidelity to God.Therefore, this is the absolute norm for Catholics. We must respond fully, or unconditionally, to this conviction of faith which shapes our morality. Most Catholic moral theologians agree today that the most direct and pervasive difference Christian faith makes for the moral life is that it provides a certain way of seeing ourselves, our relationship and the world around us. Our faith serves as a lens through which we thus establish our priorities and then discern what are required to do
Before injudiciously deciding what we should do about this question of cloning, the priority is to examine our responsibility in terms of that basic faith commitment. This involves three fundamental elements of our faith, namely,our vocation to stewardship, our call to co-creativity and our commitment to respect for life which I will specifically examine.