IVF

As the Catholic Church and its cardinals prepare for May’s conclave, a new study by the Pew Research Center shows that U.S. Catholics want a more inclusive church — but divides remain on key issues among those with differing rates of Mass attendance.

Katie McMahon and her husband realized the gravity of using in vitro fertilization, or IVF, to conceive when, years later, they needed to make a decision about their final four embryonic children frozen in time by cryopreservation.