Hello, and welcome to Focus the Catholic Cancer's podcast for living understanding and defending

your Catholic faith.

I'm Sy Killett, your host, and in the area of bioethics, in the area of biological technologies

and the integrating of our own biology with other kinds of technology, things are moving

fast and are likely to start moving faster.

It's just how technological breakthroughs work.

So the habit that the Catholic Church has is when there are new things to be dealt with,

the Church is usually ready to deal with them with clarity and precision, about 100 years

after they happen.

And we probably should probably not do that with this, we're going to need to be ready

a bit quicker than that.

So to help us talk about the ethical dimension, the ethical considerations we're going to need

to have as transhumanist solutions and ideas and projects are proposed to us in coming

decades.

What should we be thinking about as those things come up?

How should we be talking them about them with our neighbors, both Catholic and not Catholic?

Father Tadbaholcic is our guest, he's the director of education at the National Catholic

Bioethic Center.

Father, thanks for being with us.

Sy, great to be able to join you.

Thanks so much for having me on.

You know, your opening comment there about the fact that it sometimes seems like the

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