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Pope Francis has set the tone for his papacy and for the whole Church in the years ahead with three concise points inhis homilyon March 14, 2013: “Journeying, building, professing.”[1]I would suggest there is a clear takeaway for institutions whose mission and identity are bound up with Catholic Christian charit...
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Here is the second part of a response to a question on bioethics answered by the fellows of theCulture of Life Foundation. Part 1 of this response was published March 7; the third and final …
read moreWith disputes over bioethics issues continually in the news, Catholics are under ever more pressure to defend their stance on topics ranging from abortion to euthanasia to organ transplant and …
read moreHere is the text of an address Benedict XVI gave Saturday to participants in an international conference on stem cell research, which was held at the Vatican. * * * Dear Brother Bishops, Your …
read moreThe European Court of Justice has ruled out the possibility of patents in any process involving stem cells taken from human embryos. The Oct. 18 ruling came as a result of a case involving …
read moreThe journal Nature announced last Wednesday that scientists had for the first time successfully derived "patient specific" stem cells from a cloned human embryo. The last time such a claim was …
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