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Catholic reflections on the human genome.

Religious traditions frequently inform the contexts that shape how believers morally decide complex bioethical topics, and this certainly has been the case for the Roman Catholic community. There is a substantial number of documents from this religious tradition that have been produced on the scientific and medical interventions into the human genome, and the teachings found in these documents have illuminated the way Catholic believers have morally thought about and judged manipulations of the human genetic code. Before discussing how the Roman Catholic moral tradition has approached the recent discoveries in genetics and the Human Genome Project, however, it would be helpful to name and describe the areas within genetic science that are or will be in need of moral evaluation. Medical scientists could conceivably develop four different types of human gene transfer from the results produced in the Human Genome Project.1 In other words, within the next twenty or thirty years medical science will have the capacity to alter our genetic code in four ways. The first two types are therapeutic in nature because their intent is either to correct some genetic defect that causes disease or to prevent future disease. The other two types are not