Well, this is long overdue. Congress overwhelmingly passed, and the president will sign, a bill outlawing genetic discrimination in employment and insurance. From the story:The bill passed with overwhelming support in the House on a 414-1 vote, a week after being approved by a 95-0 vote in the . . . . Continue Reading »
Wheaton College, where I teach, does many wonderful things that go unnoticed by the world; we seem to draw a great deal of attention only when our administration lets a faculty member go. A few years ago, the dismissal of my friend Joshua Hochschild upon his embrace of Catholicism created quite a . . . . Continue Reading »
Iranian media have hailed the April 30 meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and Iranian clergy as a propaganda victory for the Islamic Republic. The meeting was the sixth in a regular series of encounters between Iranian clergy and the Holy See. The Iranian news agency carried the following item . . . . Continue Reading »
A knock-off on “Stuff White People Like” but this is pretty funny: http://stufffchristianslike.blogspot.com/ Some highlights: http://stufffchristianslike.blogspot.com/2008/04/189-gdtr.html http://stufffchristianslike.blogspot.com/2008/04/187-leaving-room-for-holy-spirit-when.html . . . . Continue Reading »
The power of the IPSCs is becoming so evident that, like Ian Wilmut before them, many scientists are joining the field. From a story in Nature Reports Stem Cells: The fact that making iPS cells does not pose the technical and ethical challenges of working with eggs or embryos is drawing large . . . . Continue Reading »
Fr. George Rutler is quite emphatic about it: We are not basking in the afterglow of the papal visit, we are basking in the pre -glow of it’s far-reaching impact. Benedict’s central message, that Christ is indeed our Hope, is just beginning to kindle in our Church and society. The flood . . . . Continue Reading »
The terrorist pimp Jerry Vlasak, reacting to a judge’s refusal to lift a restraining order against ALF and others who have made the lives of UCLA animal researchers a living hell through threats of death, bombs left on doorsteps, etc., has issued a clear threat of violence that is barely even . . . . Continue Reading »
There is a huge lesson to be learned in this story, but we won’t learn it and the media won’t highlight the issue—lest we come to the “wrong conclusion” about Terri Schiavo. Haleigh Poutre, who doctors swore would never recover, and state bureaucrats consigned to . . . . Continue Reading »
I would be more comfortable about this tremendous potential advance in healing serious wounds if it were reported in a peer reviewed medical journal rather than the sensationalistic Daily “Halle Berry Shows She’s a REAL Mom as Dress Reveals Post Baby Tummy” Mail, but the story . . . . Continue Reading »
“Quem queris? Whom do you seek?” No words pierce more deeply than those of Christ, spoken personally and uniquely to each soul, but in our noisy streets and noisy minds, it’s easy not to hear or notice. It is not as though Christ climbs a stage amid flag-waving fanfare, picks up a . . . . Continue Reading »
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