His Holiness the Pope with the members of the International Sterility Congress at the Vatican
We spoke in a previous issue of the International Sterility Congress held at Naples, in Italy, between May 18 and 28 last, and we promised the readers at the time to speak at length of this congress, for the particular benefit to which the magazine "The Woman's Voice" attaches great importance.
The importance of
the International Sterility Congress: This year's international sterility congress was only the second of its kind, held under the supervision and organization of the International Sterility Association, whose founding goes back no more than five years. Yet despite the youth of the institution, 1,300 doctors, men and women, from 52 countries attended the congress.
The efforts of the delegates were bent in earnest upon studying the causes of sterility and attempting to overcome one of the chief causes of family unhappiness — I mean the absence of a child...
It was in the Royal Palace at Naples that the International Sterility Congress met — a sumptuous