Denver Newsroom, Mar 18, 2021 / 05:04 pm (CNA).- New “models” of early human embryos that cannot grow into full human beings provoke ethical questions about whether they are human beings. One ethicist warns that research should be halted out of caution until more is known, because of the ethical dangers and temptations in the experiments.
“Scientists face the perennial temptation to depersonalize early human life, and to treat embryos as objects. Human beings are so sacred, that we must particularly reverence them in their origins, in the way they come into the world,” Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, a National Catholic Bioethics Center staff ethicist with a background in medical research, told CNA March 18.
US commission calls for long-awaited solution to Iraq s disputed territories 2021/04/22 15:50
Nadine Maenza, Commissioner at the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) testifies at a human rights hearing, June 27, 2019. (Photo: USCIRF)
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) - A United States commission charged with monitoring international religious freedoms has called on Washington to use its diplomatic clout to help resolve the intractable and divisive issue of territories disputed by the federal Iraqi government and the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), in its annual report on Wednesday, called on Washington to “use diplomatic and other available channels to encourage” Baghdad and Erbil “to resolve the disputed areas per article 140 of the Iraqi Constitution while including all religious and ethnic minorities in the process and comprehensively implement the Sinjar [Shingal] S
Chicago, Ill., Apr 19, 2021 / 20:01 pm America/Denver (CNA).
Recent reporting from the Chicago Sun-Times highlighted several religious orders active in Chicago that have not released lists of members credibly accused of sexual abuse.
Blase Cardinal Cupich of Chicago had 2018 requested that orders active in his local Church do so.
The Archdiocese of Chicago has said that Cardinal Cupich intends to only list archdiocesan clergy accused of abuse, leaving each individual order to list its own credibly accused clerics.
The Sun-Times notes that the adjacent dioceses of Joliet and Rockford list on their websites religious clerics who are credibly accused of abuse and who are or were active in those dioceses.