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Embryonic Stem Cells
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awelborn
What we know, from Maureen L. Condic, associate professor of neurobiology and anatomy at the University of Utah School of Medicine in First Things. The assertion that embryonic stem cells in the laboratory can be induced to form all the cells comprising the mature human body has been repeated so often that it seems incontrovertibly…
Secularization unbound?
By
awelborn
Maybe not. A look at the Dutch: When the "corporate prayer" movement first started in 1996, few people in Holland took any notice. Why should they have done so? After all, Holland’s manifest destiny was to become a fully secularized country, in which prayer was considered at best an irrational but harmless pastime. That was…
Nancy-Palooza
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awelborn
Can you feel the excitement? In a few days, Nancy Pelosi will seize the reins as Speaker of the House, and boy, does she want you to know it: On a scale associated with presidential inaugurations, Nancy Pelosi is planning four days of celebration surrounding her Jan. 4 swearing-in as the first female speaker of…
What should she do?
By
awelborn
From a reader. Ouch. The reader added that she is a parishioner at this parish, but not any kind of liturgical specialist. She gave me a little more information in another note that fleshed out the relational and personal issues that seem to make either the pastor or the music director reluctant to do anything…
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