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#490 Ethical Options for Infertility - Kimberly Henkel

Catholic Answers Focus

Catholic Answers

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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What are the options, and where is the hope, for Catholic couples who encounter infertility? Ann Koshute and Kimberly Henkel, founders of Springs in the Desert, a ministry to those struggling with infertility, join us for a conversation. Cy Kellett: Hello, and welcome to Focus the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your host. We do apologetics here. That’s what we do. Sometimes the most important apologetic, really the ground of apologetics, that is, explaining and defending the faith to others, is to live it. Esp…

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Focus the Catholic Answers Podcast for Living Understanding and Defending

0:10.8

Your Catholic Faith.

0:11.8

I'm Psy Kellett, your host, and we do apologetics here.

0:15.4

That's what we do.

0:16.4

And sometimes the most important apologetic, really the ground of apologetics.

0:21.1

That is explaining and defending the faith to others is to live it, especially in difficult

0:26.9

times, to share the joy, the peace that comes from the faith, even when things are not

0:32.9

going well.

0:33.9

And you'll recognize that we do moral issues here on focus and among them, in vitro

0:40.8

fertilization and contraception and all of those things.

0:44.8

But answering moral questions is not the same as addressing the needs that people have

0:50.3

in difficult situations, especially facing the very difficult situation of infertility

0:56.1

within marriage.

0:57.7

So we have two people to help us talk about that and it may help you in your apologetics

1:02.6

to know, well, first of all, some of the things maybe not to say, some of us need to learn

1:08.2

those things, but also the ways to actually be helpful and present and Christ-like to

1:14.2

folks who are struggling in those situations.

1:18.8

Our guests come from Springs of Love, you can find them at springsoflove.org and I'll

1:23.2

let them tell their story to you to start.

1:25.6

And co-shoot first and welcome very much.

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Hi, Si, thanks so much for having us.

1:30.3

Yes, thanks for being here and Kimberly Hankle.

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