Last month, the Pontifical Academy for Life issued a document summarizing the proceedings of the international congress on "The Human Embryo in the Pre-Implantation Phase." For those of you interested on just what the Church teaches about the human embryo, personhood and implantation, the document can be found here, courtesy of Zenit. It is a brief, by no means comprehensive summary of the first stages of the embryo after fertilization and of the ethical consequences.
