I sometimes hear from people with serious illnesses telling me they are thinking about getting stem cell treatments from non reliable sources. I always urge them not to and be careful. Here is one reason why: A woman is being jailed for falsely promising to cure Lou Gehrig’s disease with stem . . . . Continue Reading »
The New York Times has a funny article not on a devotional practice, but on the consequences of a devotional practice. As we all know, devout Muslims pray five times a day in the direction of Mecca as one of the five pillars of their faith. The news regularly runs footage of crowds kneeling in . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s a tale of woe. According to this story in the American Lawyer , lawyers in Manhattan’s elite law firmsthe kinds of places where partners make $1 million a year and moreare depressed because they don’t make as much money as financial professionals. Alas, . . . . Continue Reading »
The human cloners over at Missouri Coalition for Lifesaving Cures are sure a disingenuous lot, for example, claiming in Amendment 2 to have outlawed human cloning when the measure actually created a state constitutional right to clone human life.Now, a representative has a letter in the St. Louis . . . . Continue Reading »
Several years ago, the Montana Supreme Court basically ruled that whatever a patient wants to do with a willing medical provider should not be impeded by the government. Not surprisingly, as I mentioned here at SHS, it bred a lawsuit to create a state right to assisted suicide in the Big Sky State. . . . . Continue Reading »
Thanks, Rob, that helps . I think you’re right as far as the general thrust of recent CDF statements goes (think of Dominus Iesus , or the recent clarification on the meaning of the word Church), I guess I just found your exclamation ” Take that, Karl Rahner ” to be a bit . . . . Continue Reading »
What you have heard from me before many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. (2 Tim. 2:2) The Congregation for the Clergy has a new online resource, Biblia Clerus , excellent for clergy, catechists, and anyone seeking to read the Word of God in light of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Last year a good friend introduced me to a song that has become my new favorite Christmas carol. It’s also the shortest one I’ve ever heard, at just over a minute long. According to Wikipedia , “Adam Lay Ybounden” is a 15th century song attributed to an anonymous wandering . . . . Continue Reading »
That’s U2 rock-star Bono gushing over Al Gore in the new issue of Time Magazine. Gore is a runner-up for Person of the Year. Putin is the Person of the Year . Oh how I yearn for the days when “You!” was the Person of the Year . . . . . . . Continue Reading »
Ronald Dworkinnot the famous legal theorist, but a medical doctor and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institutewrites in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal about the development of technology that will allow women to freeze unfertilized eggs when they’re young so that they can . . . . Continue Reading »