The beginning of the 21st century is marked by a great revolution supported by science, which is called biothechnological revolution and our century a biotechnological century (1). Enormous advances in biology, especially in genetics have led to homological and heterological procreation in laboratory, human genome manipulation, genetic engineering, animal but also human cloning, and scientific ...

THE SECOND Vatican Council profoundly desired to bring the Church up to date (aggiornamento) and make it a more vital instrument of God's saving presence in a rapidly changing world. Crucial to the revitalization of the Church's mission was the reform of its institutional structures. Understandably, then, a significant aspect of postconciliar reform has been an unprecedented effort to reform ca...