Our friend and FT contributor Sally Thomas has a nice meditation on confession on her blog today . A portion: My confessor raised the question of whether I needed to confess them at all, but when I said I thought I needed to, he heard me out. And then he absolved me. In that moment, I experienced a . . . . Continue Reading »
Jon Meacham has a nice obituary on Tim Russert that focuses particularly on Russert’s faith. If Jody Bottum’s Swallows thesis is correct, I fear that the American Catholic Church won’t be producing another Russert for a long time. . . . . Continue Reading »
We will be instituting a new policy today based on these guidelines . . . . . Continue Reading »
A full one-quarter of NHS trust hospitals in the UK fail to meet minimum standards of cleanliness. From the story:The Healthcare Commission reports that no improvement has been made on a year ago. In total, 103 out of 391 trusts admitted they did not achieve the minimum requirements, brought in by . . . . Continue Reading »
So many of these adult stem cell success stories come to me now, that I am unable to post them all here at SHS. Two recent examples: A new adult stem cell therapy is successfully restoring vision to people with chemical injuries and a genetic defect that causes impaired vision. From the story:Using . . . . Continue Reading »
M. Night Shyamalan seems determined to kill off his career. I’ll explain. In his latest film, a would-be Hitchcockian thriller called The Happening , people start killing themselves all along the Northeast corridor. (And no —Amtrak does not figure in this scenario.) It starts in Central . . . . Continue Reading »
So much time is spent by the media (and SHS) arguing about technologies like cloning and ESCR, that I like to feature non-controversial biotech stories from time to time in order to help us all keep a proper perspective. This story seems a good example: New biomarkers are being tested that may . . . . Continue Reading »
Assisted suicide advocates pushing Washington’s I 1000 are resorting to coercion to pressure the media into using their advocacy phrases when describing the pro-assisted suicide initiative. From the Eye on Olympia blog :I-1000 proponents have been pressing news organizations not to use the . . . . Continue Reading »
Pope Benedict XVI’s emphasize on the evangelical mission of the Catholic Church alarms the Muslim side of interreligious dialogue, Sandro Magister reports at chiesa.com . Magdi Cristiano Allam’s baptism by the Pope at the Easter Vigil caused consternation in the Islamic world, as well . . . . Continue Reading »
Good point, Steve . That’s the crux of the matter. The rich theology takes some understanding. Do we catechize the laity so that when they hear “ancient bondage” or “ineffable,” they will understand what they mean and have their faith deepened as a result? Or do we . . . . Continue Reading »
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