14-day limit prohibition for human embryo research abandoned June 1, 2021
The international scientific body governing stem cell research is abandoning the absolute 14-day limit on culturing human embryos in the laboratory, putting pressure on Canada’s law prohibiting the practice.
“As happens so often in human affairs, opening the door on a controversial but somewhat defensible position (not from the Church’s point of view though) bumps up against a boundary which is first deemed arbitrary and then seen as limiting true science. So the push is on to expand the pool of available research material,” Redemptorist bioethicist Fr. Mark Miller told
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Publishing date: May 14, 2021 • 28 minutes ago • 5 minute read • Henry Hildebrandt, pastor of the Church of God in Aylmer, leaves the church after attending it for about two hours with dozens of congregation members on Thursday May 13, 2021. They were there as a judge in nearby St. Thomas began deliberating whether to padlock the church as it continues to hold Sunday services in breach of Ontario s laws that limit gatherings to slow COVID-19 s spread. (Mike Hensen/The London Free Press)
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The doors of Aylmer’s Church of God are getting padlocks.
After weeks of flouting Ontario’s emergency public-health laws with far-too-large Sunday services, Superior Court Justice Bruce Thomas had little choice Friday but to order the controversial Elgin County church locked up until Ontario’s pandemic restrictions are loosened.
Catholic schools, especially those that serve the poor, are collapsing.
In the mid-1960s, twelve out of 100 schoolchildren in the United States attended a Catholic school. Even if you were not Catholic, chances are you knew multiple peers who attended Catholic school. Today, the numbers tell a grisly tale of collapse, under the triple threats of cost, scandal, and apathy. But there s more to this story than they re telling you. Here s the real answer why our Catholic school system collapsing and what can we do to reverse this trend.
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