Dylan Schrader (RC) on the Majority of Catholic Theologians Having Accepted Delayed Animation/Ensoulment

  

Another difficulty arises from the fact that most theologians in the Church’s history have accepted some theory of delayed animation, not as a theological postulate per se but simply as the prevailing view in the embryology of their own time. (Dylan Schrader, Mary, Mother of God’s Word Made Flesh [Sacra Doctrina; Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2026], 56)