The Archiocesi di Firenze (Archdiocese of Florence) covers over 322 parishes and almost 840,000 Catholics. Giuseppe Betori is the archbishop.

The Archdiocese of Glasgow is the center of Catholic religious life in Glasgow. Rev. Philip Tartaglia is the archbishop.

The Diocese of Paris is the center of Catholic religious life in the Paris. Press contact is Claire Avalle.

The Catholic Church in the Czech Republic is the center of Catholic religious life in the Czech Republic. It is based in Prague.

The Catholic Church of the Holy Land is the center of the Catholic community in Jerusalem. It is led by Rev. Giacinto-Boulos Marcuzzo.

The Catholic Tokyo International Center supports Japan’s international Catholic community.

A scholarly treatment of the debate can be found in the book The Ethics of Embryo Adoption and the Catholic Tradition: Moral Arguments, Economic Reality and Social Analysis, co-edited by Sarah-Vaughan Brakman and Darlene Fozard Weaver.

And a Dec. 31, 2008, Catholic News Service feature looks at one committed Catholic couple who would like to adopt frozen embryos and were perplexed by the Vatican instruction.

Christopher Kaczor is a philosophy professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and author of The Seven Big Myths About the Catholic Church: Distinguishing Fact From Fiction About Catholicism, in which he discusses the papacy. He can discuss Benedict’s legacy.