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Brave new world
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awelborn
English and Welsh bishops make a statement: Human embryos injected with animal cells, or chimeras, should be accorded human status under proposals to be considered by the British Parliament in the fall, said the Catholic bishops of England and Wales. They also said politicians should reconsider a proposed ban on the implantation of chimeras into…
On the contrary
By
awelborn
A few weeks ago, one of the bloggers at Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex commented on Phliip Jenkins’ observation that some forms of Christianity are growing in Europe, and Eurabia might not be inevitable: I would only add that if the future of Christianity lay in its pentacostalist and charismatic movements, then it has no future at all. These…
Whatever
By
awelborn
I read Fr. Richard McBrien’s latest column last night, and spent a few minutes with teetering between feelings of "well of course he would say that" and "what is he saying?" The column is on conversion. Fr. McBrien writes that in the old days, people became Catholic because they believed in that Catholicism was the…
Oh.
By
awelborn
That Motu Proprio. Pope Benedict issued a Motu Proprio today – about Papal elections. From VIS: Made public today was a "Motu Proprio," written in Latin, with which the Holy Father Benedict XVI restores the traditional norm concerning the majority required for the election of the Supreme Pontiff. According to this norm, in order for…
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