The Embryo of Christ & the Mystery of Man, edited by Elizabeth Rex and Francis Etheredge

The Embryo of Christ & the Mystery of Man, edited by Elizabeth Rex and Francis Etheredge

The Embryo of Christ & The Mystery of Man

by Francis Etheredge and Elizabeth Rex

The Embryo of Christ & The Mystery of Man explores the theological, ethical, medical, and magisterial foundations of human embryo adoption. Edited by Francis Etheredge and Elizabeth Rex, this collection brings together Catholic scholars examining the moral licitness of embryo transfer, the Theology of the Body, the Annunciation, and the dignity of embryonic human life. Through rigorous scholarship and faithful engagement with Catholic teaching, these essays invite readers to consider the profound moral questions surrounding frozen embryos.

Paperback: $14.95 | Kindle: $9.99

TESTIMONIALS

“The Embryo of Christ & the Mystery of Man invites readers into a profound conversation about human dignity, the Incarnation, and the moral complexities of embryo adoption. Its theological depth and bioethical rigor challenge us to defend life’s sacred beginnings.” – Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, co-author with Ronda Chervin of Catholic Realism: A Framework for the Refutation of Atheism and the Evangelization of Atheists

​ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Mr. Francis Etheredge has earned a BA Div (Hons), MA in Catholic Theology, PGC in Biblical Studies, PGC in Higher Education, and an MA in Marriage and Family (Distinction).

He is currently a freelance writer and speaker. His books on Catholic bioethics and his poetry may be found at https://enroutebooksandmedia.com/francisetheredge/

He is married with eight children, plus three in heaven.

 

​ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Dr. Elizabeth Rex is a Catholic Bioethicist who earned her MA and PhD in Thomistic Ethics at the University of Navarra and is now pursuing a doctorate in Theology at Pontifex University. Dr. Rex has taught Catholic Bioethics at Holy Apostles College & Seminary in Cromwell, CT, and was an Adjunct Professor of Catholic Studies at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT.

Given her scholarly expertise in IVF from the Catholic perspective, Dr. Rex was invited to become an Associate Scholar of the Charlotte Lozier Institute in 2024. She is the co-author of A Handbook on the Moral Arguments in the Embryo Adoption Debate and What Should be Done with “Orphaned” Frozen Embryos?

 

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AI and the Catholic Perspective

Editors, Jane F. Adolphe and Łukasz Mirosław

AI from a Catholic Perspective, edited by Jane Adolphe and Łukasz Mirosław, brings together scholars across disciplines to examine rapidly advancing artificial intelligence through Catholic teaching. Exploring human dignity, intelligence, work, truth, law, and moral responsibility, contributors distinguish technological capability from human understanding and judgment. This timely collection offers a framework for evaluating AI’s promises and risks, safeguarding human agency, and shaping technological change in service of the person, authentic community, and the common good.

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TESTIMONIALS

“This timely volume brings the Church’s enduring wisdom into fruitful conversation with artificial intelligence, reminding us that technological progress serves humanity only when it honors human dignity, cultivates moral judgment, and advances the common good.” – Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, co-author with Ronda Chervin of Catholic Realism

JANE F. ADOLPHE, EDITOR

​​JANE F. ADOLPHE is a canon lawyer and a civil attorney (New York, Alberta); a professor of Law at Ave Maria School of Law (AMSL), in Naples, Florida; and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Notre Dame, School of Law, in Sydney, Australia. She has served as an external and internal legal advisor to the Papal Secretariat of State, Section for Relations with States.

ŁUKASZ MIROSŁAW, EDITOR

Dr. Łukasz Mirosław is a Senior Industry Specialist in Big Tech with 20+ years of experience in High-Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence. After completing his Ph.D.studies at the Max Planck Institute and Wrocław University of Science and Technology, he conducted multiscale modeling research across leading European institutions. An active entrepreneur and grant recipient, Dr. Mirosław has co-founded four startups and secured research funding from institutions across Germany, Switzerland, and Poland. He is also dedicated to applying modern technology in media to promote Catholic values, co-founding the Christian Culture Center of Mary the Queen and the Economic Catholic Front.

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A New Way of Conceiving Conception

by Francis Etheredge with a foreword by Rev. Dr. Richard Conrad, OP

In this short book, Francis Etheredge returns to a subject with which he has previously wrestled in the hope of arguing, more concisely, for a clearer and more accurate account of when each of us begins.

On the one hand, each of us is an unmerited and free gift; on the other hand, many have forgotten that we share this. Therefore, Etheredge hopes that, by putting forward yet again the necessity of both addressing the evidence and the revealed truth that will guide us, we will set out yet again towards the goal of a convincing account of when each one of us comes to exist – for the truth awaits us!

For, it is hoped, that all people of good will, especially scientists, philosophers, and theologians, will collaborate on a renewed understanding of the first instant of fertilization that will set millions, if not billions, free from the plagues of death, experimentation, and an indefinite frozen state – all of which contradict the natural right to the completion of what has been begun.

We ask no more of others than we have received ourselves: the completion of the gift of existence.

 
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Table of Contents

Biography and Foreword by the Rev. Dr. Richard Conrad, OP

Introduction: Hope and Patience in the Truth

Three Kinds of Published Work

Chapter One: The Background: Preliminary Remarks: What is a Real Beginning?; The Blessed Trinity and Beginnings; The Personal Nature of the Gift of Human Personhood; The human embryo in Scripture: golmi; The Mystery of Marriage and the Presence of Christ

Chapter Two: Two Theories: The First One: Form and Matter: Two Theories: Immediate Ensoulment or From the Fusion of Nuclei; The Fusion of the Nuclei and Form and Matter; The Contribution of the Documents: “Keys to Bioethics”; and The Latin and English Texts of Donum vitae, The Gift of Life; In View of This Discussion, There Have Arisen Three Objections to This Type of Delayed Animation

Chapter Three: Two Theories: The Second One: A New Way of Conceiving Conception: Literally: A First Instant of Ensoulment; The Human Embryonic Person; Let Us Now Consider Some Theological Reflections; There Is, However, One Further Type of Argument which Arises out of the Nature of the Catholic Church and Her Sacraments; ‘The Visible Rites by which the Sacraments are Celebrated Signify and Make Present the Graces Proper to each Sacrament’ (CCC: 1131); The Eucharist as the Mystery with which to Compare Human Conception

Conclusion: Why Does it Matter What the First Instant of Human Personhood Is?

Lest We Forget: The Passion of the Unborn

Author Articles

“Conception: A Contradiction?” by Francis Etheredge, Homiletics and Pastoral Review (December 11, 2020), available here.

Testimonials

“Francis Etheredge brings scientific evidence, philosophical reasoning, and revealed truth into a compelling conversation about the first moment of human existence. A New Way of Conceiving Conception challenges us to recognize every human life as an unmerited gift—worthy of protection, reverence, and completion.” – Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, co-author with Ronda Chervin of Catholic Realism

“Francis Etheredge’s short book about the beginning of the human person is convincing and intriguing.  It is of great importance because its formulations can influence false ideas about when human life begins which underlie controversies about abortion.  As a philosopher and also a pro-life activist I highly recommend this book.” – Dr. Ronda Chervin is a retired philosophy professor, author of numerous Catholic books and a well known speaker on EWTN

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mr. Francis Etheredge is married with eight children, plus three in heaven.

Francis is currently a freelance writer and speaker and his “Posts” on LinkedIn can be viewed here. Poetry; short articles; autobiographical blog; excerpts from books; and “Philosophize: A Ten Minute Write.”

For a list of all of Francis’ books published by En Route Books and Media, click here.

See Francis’ other books, too, entitled Scripture: A Unique Word, From Truth and truth: Volume I-Faithful Reason, From Truth and truth: Volume II: Faith and Reason in Dialogue, From Truth and truth: Volume III: Faith is Married Reason.

He has earned a BA Div (Hons), MA in Catholic Theology, PGC in Biblical Studies, PGC in Higher Education, and an MA in Marriage and Family (Distinction).

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Pope Pius XII and Modern Science: Towards a Catholic Science Course

by Frits Albers, edited by Frank Calneggia

Frits Albers compiled a comprehensive exposition and summary of the principles of science, and philosophy as it pertains to science, taught by His Holiness Pope Pius XII in nine addresses on science and scientific subjects and in one encyclical.  The Pope explains the worth and necessity of true science and its rightful place in society, the pitfalls of pseudo-science, and the intellectual and moral obligations of scientists; not only as scientists engaged in highly specialized occupations, but as responsible and mature citizens of a society greatly impacted and formed by their work.

The first principle of the papal synthesis, the one from which all others radiate, is the certitude that true science should lead the scientist to a personal belief in God. This foremost principle and propositions which lead to it as well as those which follow upon it, form the basis for the type of science courses that should be taught in Catholic Schools and Universities.

The author presented his exposition of Papal Teaching in such a way that the principles to follow and the errors to avoid are clearly marked out and separated in successive sections of the book. The blue-print is easy to follow and should give instruction, encouragement and fresh heart to the beleaguered Catholic science teacher or professor.

Paperback: $12.95 | Audible: $14.99 | Kindle: $9.99

TESTIMONIALS

“Albers’ Pope Pius XII and Science is a rigorous, unapologetically Catholic synthesis that restores the harmony of faith and reason, challenging modern assumptions while inviting scholars to recover a vision of science ordered to truth and God.” – Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, Director, Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 

Frits Albers Ph. B (1921-2000) was born in Holland and studied under the Jesuits at Nijmegen during the 1940s.  He emigrated to Australia in 1951, and travelled extensively within the south-east region of the ‘lucky country’.  He joined the Department of Education in Victoria and worked as a high school teacher who specialised in mathematics, French and English.

In the early post Vatican II period he realised that the strange interpretations of the recently concluded Council that were being forced upon Catholics were under pinned by the same philosophy he had been taught in the 1940’s by the Jesuits at Nijmegen in the name of St Thomas Aquinas, but which in reality was the systematic Modernism of Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, S.J. Thus, in the early 1970’s he began writing articles and books to expose the philosophical root of these errors and aberrations of Teilhard De Chardin, and to defend Catholic Faith, clear thinking, and right philosophy.

ABOUT THE EDITOR

 

The editor is a retired electrical engineer who worked for most of his professional career in the specialist area of power generation. In a sabbatical year, he completed post graduate research in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne. He has long loved the philosophy of St Thomas Aquinas.

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Everywhen

Everywhen

"The eternal now of God is definitely the underpinning of the Eucharist and your theory in Everywhen – absolutely correct." - from a personal email to Dr. Thomas Sheahen from Fr. Robert Spitzer, SJEverywhen: God, Symmetry, and Time by Dr. Thomas P. Sheahen Have you...

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The Fallen Angel Model: Deeper into the Mysteries

The Fallen Angel Model: Deeper into the Mysteries

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Discovering the Fullness of Reality by Dr. David J. Keys

Discovering the Fullness of Reality by Dr. David J. Keys

David Keys reading from his book at Catholic Gifts and Books at 13397 Olive Blvd., Chesterfield, MO 63017. See https://catholicgiftsandbooks.com/Discovering the Fullness of Reality: How Partial Truths Obscure the Union of Faith and Science by Dr. David J. Keys “Is...

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New Paths to God and the Soul by Roger Skrenes

New Paths to God and the Soul by Roger Skrenes

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The Eclipse of God: Is Religion on the Way Out?

The Eclipse of God: Is Religion on the Way Out?

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A Rational Case for Life: Why the Unborn Matter by Dr. Randal L. N. Mandock

A Rational Case for Life: Why the Unborn Matter by Dr. Randal L. N. Mandock

A Rational Case for Life: Why the Unborn Matter

by Randal L. N. Mandock

This book was written as an advocacy for redefining terms related to pregnancy and its complications. The author considered this necessary because of the confusion among many about the scope of the challenges to the birth of babies in modern societies. The book proposes a method of revising definitions and terminology to make them more precise, accurate, and relevant than those currently in use.

Primarily religious in nature, the book addresses the misdirection and disinformation often found in counseling that favors abortion over birth, the nature of true religion and of life, the problems of in vitro fertilization and contraception, the origin and nature of man as willed by God, the nature of the one true God and His relationship to man, uncertainty in matters of human conception and pregnancy, the dignity of one human life, and a method and justification for a more accurate redefinition of medical terms related to pregnancy and abortion.

History demonstrates that the Magisterium of the Catholic Church has, for two millennia, charted a masterful path between authority and reason in man’s understanding of the origin and nature of human life. This is evident recently in its recognition, once again, of the virtue of prudence in assessing the start of an individual’s life.

Paperback $14.95 | Audible: $14.99 | Kindle $9.99

TESTIMONIALS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Randal Mandock enjoyed two parallel careers for most of his working life: physical scientist and religious educator. His formal technical education includes a B.S. in geology from UTEP, an M.S. in astro-geophysics from ICR, an M.S. in geophysical sciences, and a Ph.D. in earth and atmospheric sciences from the Georgia Institute of Technology. In his doctoral dissertation, he developed a phased-array radar for imaging atmospheric turbulence. His post-military technical career included research and teaching assistantships at UTEP and GTRI, research fellowships at three USAF laboratories, geophysicist positions at Phillips Petroleum Company and ARCO Oil and Gas, an associate professor position at Clark Atlanta University, and faculty positions at Holy Spirit Preparatory School.

Dr. Mandock’s training in religion encompasses the first year of formation for the Catholic diaconate and three levels of catechesis certification. His career in religion spanned four decades as a catechist, internet apologist, and director of religious education at a Catholic parish. He was discharged honorably from the USMC with the rank of sergeant.

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TESTIMONIALS

“Francis writes with rare intellectual courage, exposing the hidden metaphysics beneath modern science while inviting readers into a deeper, richer vision of reality where faith and reason meet without fear, apology, or compromise.” – Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, author of The Narrative Spirituality of Dante’s Divine Comedy

​ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kenneth Francis is the current Editor of Mind Matters and a Contributing Editor at New English Review. For the past 30 years, he has worked as an editor in various publications, as well as a university professor in journalism. He also holds an MA in Theology and is the author of The Little Book of God, Mind, Cosmos and Truth, The Terror of Existence: From Ecclesiastes to Theatre of the Absurd (with Theodore Dalrymple), and Neither Trumpets Nor Violins (with Theodore Dalrymple and Samuel Hux). His most recent books are Theology in Music: How Christian Themes Permeate Classic Songs, Theology in Film: How Christian Themes Permeate Classic Movies, and Cities of the Absurd: Strange Tales from the Dark Metropolis and Corridors of the Absurd: Sinister tales from the Deep Halls of Power and Dreams

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