My education did start in the home and my Dad (who was always proud of "Uncle Joe" McCarthy) didn't really like the idea of my going to Jesuit schools, but he went along for the educational value of it. As I got older, I realized how right he was.
http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/pdf/Culture%20of%20Death%20on%20Catholic%20Campuses.pdf
_ Paul Lauritzen has been a Religious Studies
professor since 1985 and Chairman of the Religious
Studies Department since 1999. He is
Director of the Program in Applied Ethics and
teaches bioethics and religious ethics.
Lauritzen testified in a report prepared for the
July 2003 meeting of the U.S. President’s
Council on Bioethics that the human embryo is
not a person. “I do not think the early embryo
is a person, and I believe that both embryonic
and adult stem cell research should go forward
under a system of strict regulation,” Lauritzen
wrote in the paper titled “The Ethics of Stem
Cell Research”. The paper argues against the
Catholic Church’s insistence that laws concerning
stem cell research be rooted in respect
for the human embryo as “a human subject
with a well-defined identity.” Lauritzen argues
that the embryo’s status with individual
rights is problematic and less important than
societal concerns about the impact of embryonic
stem cell research. In a February 2004
letter to a campus newspaper, Lauritzen called
Catholic teaching on contraception “misguided”
and argued “the moral necessity of using
condoms to prevent the spread of
HIV/AIDS”.
http://www.jcu.edu/graduate/bulletin/religious.