Today’s article in Headline Bistro This month, in the 14 April online edition of the prestigious British journal Nature, researchers from Newcastle University published a letter entitled, “Pronuclear Transfer in Human Embryos to Prevent Transmission of Mitochondrial DNA Disease”. In this letter, Douglas M. Turnbull, et al. report on a human cloning technique that destroys [...]
Archive for April, 2010
Killer Cure
Posted in Uncategorized on April 29, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Gratitude
Posted in Uncategorized on April 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Several months ago I began this blog, and with it I promised God that for the rest of my life I would dedicate myself wholly and unselfishly to the Gospel of Life. I pledged that I would use my scientific and theological training to advance the body of mainstream, credible science that shows undeniably the [...]
Stem Cell Logic
Posted in Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Stem Cell Therapy, tagged Adult Stem Cells, Embryonic Stem Cells, Obama on April 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Suppose we woke to the following headline with our morning coffee: Obama Administration to Fund 13 New Experimental HIV Drugs., followed by this secondary header- Activist Groups Outraged at Funding ‘Useless’ Class of Drugs over Proven Entity. Indeed, suppose the story went on to describe how the President and the Democrats remained wedded to funding [...]
Georgia NAACP Withdraws Support for Bill Stopping Abortions Based on Race
Posted in Abortion, tagged Abortion, Georgia, NAACP on April 27, 2010 | 4 Comments »
From Lifenews.com: Atlanta, GA (LifeNews.com) — The Georgia chapter of the NAACP has withdrawn its support for a bill advancing in the state legislature that would ban abortions done specifically because the child is African-American. Although the civil rights organization opposes racial discrimination, that apparently doesn’t extend to abortions. The Georgia NAACP had originally endorsed [...]
Pro-Life Academy: Embryo (Chapter 3)
Posted in Pro-Life Academy on April 27, 2010 | 7 Comments »
As the relative quiescence of the blog in recent weeks will attest, there has been a great deal going on that has kept me from posting, and I am truly sorry for the interruption of our ongoing discussion of EMBRYO. To Chapter 3, Dualism. We need a little primer with some of the language that [...]
Healing: In Defense of Priests
Posted in Priests on April 20, 2010 | 11 Comments »
WARNING: GRAPHIC AND EXPLICIT SEXUAL CONTENT AND LANGUAGE!!! I have earned the right to say what I am about to say. I spent seven years of my life in my twenties working with homeless teens at Covenant House in New York City’s Times Square. Five of those years were spent working with unwed mothers, and [...]
My Interview on Abortion-Breast Cancer Link in Fathers for Good
Posted in Abortion, Breast Cancer, tagged ABC Link, Abortion, Breast Cancer, Oral Contraceptives, Triple Negative Breast Cancer on April 16, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Fathers for Good runs a column “Newsworthy Dads” I was interviewed on the abortion-breast cancer (ABC) link for this week’s column. My thanks to editor Brian Caulfield for his gracious offer and willingness to help get the word out about the ABC link via this interview. The ABCs of Cancer Gerard M. Nadal, who holds [...]
Polish Pope Prevents Cerebral Palsy
Posted in Bishops on April 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Brent Rooney (MSc) is Research Director, Reduce Preterm Risk Coalition, Vancouver, Canada. He forwarded this to me today for publication. Do visit Brent’s site!! Many Thanks Brent. From Brent Rooney: This is news you will NOT read in the New York Times: 15 April 2010 Justice For Kids Now Bulletin Brent Rooney (MSc, http://www.justiceforkids.webs.com ) [...]
Sorry for the Absence
Posted in Uncategorized on April 15, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Sorry for the absence, especially for the disruption in our reading of EMBRYO. I suffered burned fingers in a cooking accident, with some blisters to my fingertips. Some leftover codeine from dental work took care of the first day, after which there was no pain, but no real ability to type. {My wife says to [...]
Susan G. Komen Gives Million$ to Planned Parenthood
Posted in Breast Cancer, Planned Parenthood, tagged Breast Cancer, Jill Stanek, Planned Parentbhood, Susan G. Komen on April 7, 2010 | 19 Comments »
Jill Stanek has written two brilliant articles in World Net Daily, detailing Susan G. Komen Foundation’s multi-million dollar donations to Planned Parenthood. They are presented here. (Part I) PLANNED PARENTHOOD DEEPENS LINK TO BREAST CANCER GROUP The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation had noble beginnings, launched by Nancy Goodman Brinker in response to a [...]
Easter Lite
Posted in Uncategorized on April 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
HT: Rachel C. http://mylifeinreflection.blogspot.com/
Resurrection, Authority, Obedience
Posted in Dignity, Uncategorized on April 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The Gospel accounts of the Resurrection are stunning in their detail and in their relevance to the Church today. The women, faithful at the cross while all of the men (save John) scattered, were the first to receive the vision of the Resurrected Christ, the Good News. The men were dubious when told the women’s [...]
Holy Saturday
Posted in Dignity on April 2, 2010 | Comments Off
From today’s Liturgy of the Hours, Office of Readings From an ancient homily for Holy Saturday The Lord’s descent into the underworld Something strange is happening – there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is [...]
Good Friday
Posted in Dignity on April 1, 2010 | Comments Off
From today’s Liturgy of the Hours, Office of Readings. From the Catecheses by Saint John Chrysostom, bishop The power of Christ’s blood If we wish to understand the power of Christ’s blood, we should go back to the ancient account of its prefiguration in Egypt. “Sacrifice a lamb without blemish,” commanded Moses, “and sprinkle its [...]
