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2009-07-10T07:30:27-04:00

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Catholic closed communion & Canada’s Prime Minister

Last updated on: July 10, 2009 at 7:30 am By Gene Veith

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Canada, which might not be as secularist as people have assumed, is undergoing a religious and political controversy occasioned by Prime Minister Stephen Harper going up for Communion at a Roman Catholic funeral mass. Here is what happened: It began last Friday when Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper attended a Catholic funeral mass for a former Canadian government official. Harper, who is Protestant, went to the altar during communion and received a sacramental wafer from the presiding priest. A 40-second... Read more

2009-07-10T06:00:20-04:00

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Turning embryos back into sperm

Last updated on: July 10, 2009 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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British researchers are claiming to have generated sperm from embryonic stem cells. How many ironies can we find here? Bonus question: What work of literature anticipated this kind of backward engineering? Read more

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2009-07-10T05:30:29-04:00

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Universal Empire

Last updated on: July 10, 2009 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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Joseph Bottum is editor of First Things, a conservative, a Catholic, and a very perceptive guy. At First Thoughts — A First Things Blog, he offers a close analysis and response to Pope Benedict’s new encyclical on economics and social justice, “Caritas in Veritate. He is mostly sympathetic to what the pontiff has to say, showing that it is not as liberal as some are saying. (I would add that, as one of our commenters here has noted, it really... Read more

2009-07-10T05:00:45-04:00

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David’s palace discovered?

Last updated on: July 10, 2009 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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An archaeologist has apparently discovered the palace of King David. See this account of the find, which confounds liberal scholars who had been casting doubt on David’s existence and which confirms Biblical details. Archaeologists had previously discovered the remains of the walls around the ancient Jebusite fortress that David conquered and then made his capital. But the area inside was so small, with no trace or no room for any kind of palace. Thus, some scholars–a number of whom had... Read more

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2009-07-09T07:11:08-04:00

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Embryonic stem cells instead of lab rats

Last updated on: July 9, 2009 at 7:11 am By Gene Veith

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From Christian Telegraph: General Electric has announced that it will use embryonic stem cells provided by Geron Corporation for the purpose of testing toxic effects of drug treatments, reports Alex Bush, LifeSiteNews.com. GE issued a statement, attempting to preempt criticism over the decision, saying, “We acknowledge the considerable debate and take very seriously the ethical and societal issues associated with research using stem cells derived from embryonic or fetal tissue.” “We conduct our research in an ethically and scientifically responsible... Read more

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2009-07-09T07:00:02-04:00

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The Democrats’ supermajority in the Senate

Last updated on: July 9, 2009 at 7:00 am By Gene Veith

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Comedian Al Franken has finally been seated as the Senator from the wild, eccentric, and eccentric-loving state of Minnesota, having won the election by 312 votes out of 2.4 million cast. The lessons are that every vote counts and that we must stop thinking of Minnesota in Garrison Keillor terms. This means there are 60 Democrats in the Senate, which means they have a supermajority, allowing them to shut down any Republican filibuster attempt. The Democrats can now pass any... Read more

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2009-07-09T06:11:58-04:00

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Death of a technocrat

Last updated on: July 9, 2009 at 6:11 am By Gene Veith

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Robert McNamara, the Defense Secretary under Kennedy and LBJ and architect of the Vietnam war, died. I know some of you object when I blame that war on Democrats and on liberals, but it was a war that was started and waged under that ideology’s optimistic assumptions. Yes, conservatives supported it out of patriotic zeal, and, yes, the New Left would rise to oppose the Old Left liberalism, but the war was still the brainchild of the Democratic “whiz kids,”... Read more

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2009-07-08T05:45:12-04:00

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Pro-choice stem cell research

Last updated on: July 8, 2009 at 5:45 am By Gene Veith

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New guidelines for stem cell research to receive federal funding have been announced. The eligible stem cell lines had to have been generated following specific ethical guidelines. But what guidelines, you might ask, and what ethics? From The Washington Post: All embryonic stem cell lines that qualified for federal funding would have to meet a series of ethical requirements: The embryo that was destroyed to create a line must have been discarded after an in vitro fertilization procedure, and the... Read more

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2009-07-08T05:30:01-04:00

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Michael Jackson’s comeback

Last updated on: July 8, 2009 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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Lisa de Moraes of The Washington Post reports on the media coverage of the Michael Jackson memorial service: At least 16 television networks plan live coverage of the Jackson memorial. At press time, the list included ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, Fox News Channel, CNN, CNN Headline News, MSNBC, TV One, MTV, VH1, VH1 Classic, VH1Soul, TV Guide Channel, E!, Univision and we’re sure we’re missing a few. Think Princess Di times 2. She doesn’t mention all of the foreign TV... Read more

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2009-07-08T05:00:41-04:00

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The Pope calls for a new economic system

Last updated on: July 8, 2009 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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The Pope has issued an encyclical entitled Charity in Truth that calls for a new kind of economic system: “Today’s international economic scene, marked by grave deviations and failures, requires a profoundly new way of understanding human enterprise,” Benedict wrote in his latest encyclical, which is the most authoritative document a pope can issue. “Without doubt, one of the greatest risks for business is that they are almost exclusively answerable to their investors, thereby limited in their social value.” In... Read more

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