One Muslim organization has declined an invitation to meet Pope Benedict XVI at next Thursday’s Interfaith Meeting in Washington, the Associated Press reports , and another will attend out of respect for the Catholic Church, but not for Benedict. The Muslim Public Affairs Council, which will . . . . Continue Reading »
Scientists are telling us to mind our own business about issues such as embryonic stem cell research and human cloning. Apparently, in their hubris and arrogance, they believe that only their ideas about ethics matter. From the story: Politicians have been warned not to block scientific inquiry into . . . . Continue Reading »
I am sure PETA will claim this is a vindication, but instead the entire saga demonstrates that even the animal rights activists don’t really think that animals are the same as people. Readers of SHS will recall that two PETA workers picked up cats and dogs—some that were . . . . Continue Reading »
I have long worried about our celebrity-crazed culture and how it celebrates dysfunction and brings ruin to hyper-celebrities and average people alike. Rather than challenging us to greater levels of virtue, service and achievement—that is, to the greater exercise of human . . . . Continue Reading »
This is rich: Richard Dawkins—whose official website claims modestly to be “a clear thinking oasis”—made an incredible statement in the new movie Expelled, asserting that it is “an intriguing possibility” that space aliens “seeded” life here on Planet . . . . Continue Reading »
In the Easter issue of Dappled Things , a magazine devoted to the artistic and cultural life of young Catholics in America, First Things contributor Matthew Milliner writes on how Catholics can renew the world of contemporary art. Playing off the title of Joseph Bottum’s article ” When . . . . Continue Reading »
The Drudge Report has become America’s Front Page, to the point that even the New York Times and other newspapers try to get publicity for their stories by leaking them ahead of time to Drudge, a man the MSM once despised. Thus, when Drudge thinks a story is important, it comes to the . . . . Continue Reading »
After all the howling and moaning, after all of the demagoguery against President Bush’s ESC funding, after being warned darkly that the day of US dominance in science was over, it turns out that we lead the pack, after all. From an editorial in the Financial Times As the FDA hearings . . . . Continue Reading »
What greater proof that euthanasia and assisted suicide are an elite agenda than the millions that have been poured into the coffers of advocates by the likes of the George Soros and the Tides Foundations to groups such as Compassion and Choices (formerly the Hemlock Society). Initiative 1000 in . . . . Continue Reading »
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