The Vatican Supports Stem Cell Research? - By Courtney Hutchison – ABC News

The Catholic Church may be the last organization you'd expect to fund stem cell research, but that's precisely what they're planning to do. Photo

The Church is expected to provide financial support to help establish the International Intestinal Stem Cell Consortium, which will kick off its research today in Rome.

No, the church hasn't done an ideological 180. In fact, this new research aims to do away with the need for the embryonic stem cell research that the Vatican has called "gravely immoral." Read more  - By Courtney Hutchison – ABC News