Medical researchers have developed a non-invasive test that can potentially identify not just Downs but thousands of other genetic disorders. That could mean thousands of other excuses for abortions. And thousands of reasons for a government-run health care system to–someday–require them. A team has been
Scientists have determined that neutrinos do not travel faster than the speed of light after all. Last year, as we posted here and discussed here, an experiment indicated that they did, which would upend much of modern physics. But apparently a timing device was malfunctioning.
Robert Schuller’s Chrystal Cathedral has been bought by the Roman Catholic Church, which has renamed it the Christ Cathedral. It will become the cathedral for the Orange County Diocese. The soaring glass-paneled church known to millions of television viewers around the world as the Crystal
Good stuff from the Book of Maccabees, as applied by John Garvey, president of Catholic University on why he is suing the federal government over the Obamacare contraceptive/abortifacient mandate: A wonderful story in the second book of Maccabees describes the martyrdom of the old scribe
So says Richard Leakey, scion of the famed fossil-finding family. From the Washington Post: Richard Leakey predicts skepticism over evolution will soon be history. Not that the avowed atheist has any doubts himself. Sometime in the next 15 to 30 years, the Kenyan-born paleoanthropologist expects
Terry Mattingly points to a shift in language and of thinking that could be devastating to religious liberty: With the sounds of protests echoing across the campus, President Barack Obama knew his 2009 commencement address at the University of Notre Dame would have to mention
The state of Indiana has passed a law that allows citizens to shoot police officers if they reasonably believe the cops have entered their home illegally. PJ Media » Why the GOP-backed Indiana Gun Law Is a Terrible Idea. Conservatives used to make a point
One of the medieval “works of mercy” is burying the dead. So the Benedicting monks of St. Joseph Abbey in Louisiana, who had been making hand-crafted wooden caskets for members of their order, decided to make them available to the public. But before they sold
Luther is the acclaimed British crime drama now available to Americans on BBC America. Here is the Wikipedia description of John Luther, played by Golden-Globe winner Idris Elba: He is obsessive, possessed, and sometimes dangerous in the violence of his fixations. But Luther has paid
Denmark has passed a law requiring the state Lutheran church to hold church weddings for gay couples. It allows pastors who don’t believe in gay marriage–from one-third to one-half of the clergy–to opt out, but bishops must provide a replacement pastor to preside over the
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