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Tag:end, war, worldThe Doomsday Clock has been advanced another 2 minutes and the time now shows it’s 5 minutes to Midnight. Midnight is of course when the world ends. This clock has been adjusted closer and back from Midnight several times since its inception in 1947. The closest has been 3 minutes to Doom in […]

Tag:britain, hospital, prolifeCatholics in the UK have begun carrying ID cards indicating that if they are warded in hospital, they do not wish to be deprived of food and water.
This card is being produced by the Association of Catholic Women (in the UK). I hope that these cards are made available from a dispensing machine […]

Tag:abortion, baby, prayDawn Eden asks for prayers for a mother with twins and one of them has spina bifida and the mother intends to abort the baby even though she’s 31 1/2 weeks pregnant.
Spina bifida is not a death sentence for those born with it. Medical advances have made it possible for people with this […]

Tag:bush, cell, research, stemThere is much hope, and desperation too, on embryonic stem cell research in the news lately. The House of Representatives have passed a Bill to increase taxpayer funding of embryonic stem cell research (that will be vetoed by President Bush ultimately). For those who are unfamiliar, the source of embryos will be […]

Tag:benedict, design, evolution, God, popeThe Time Magazine issue of January 15, 2007 has a debate discussing whether God and Science is compatible with each other. The proponent for Science without a God is Professor Richard Dawkins of Oxford University and the author of The God Delusion. The proponent for the compatibility is Francis Collins, […]

Tag:bishop, catholic, chinaZenit news agency reports on the death, at the age of 103, of Bishop Joseph Meng Ziwan of Nanning, China.
Here is a Bishop who refused to collude with the Communists and remained an Underground Bishop throughout his life and spent about 20 years in forced labour camps.
Such a contrast between Bishop Meng of […]

Tag:church, conscience, contraceptionArchbishop Charles Chaput writes in the Catholic Exchange on the value of our personal conscience in making decisions. This article specifically addresses the issue of our conscience helping us to choose between contraception and Natural Family Planning.
His Grace goes on to develop the need to ensure that our conscience is developed correctly. Herein […]

Tag:childhood, health, vaccinesLife Site News.com reports on the Alberta government that some vaccines used for children in Alberta were partially derived from aborted cell-lines. However the good news is that there is an alternative vaccine available that’s not derived from aborted cell-lines at all.
Unfortunately for the pro-life community in the USA, I understand that it’s […]

Tag:golf, premature, sonyTadd Fujikawa is only sixteen and a good golfer too. He was born premature at 5 1/2 months and had to undergo surgery to reconnect his intestines. The doctors gave him a 50% chance of surviving. He beat the odds and now is participating in the Sony Open.
In today’s climate of convenience, the […]

Tag:christian, principle, workThe organization that I work for is a very small set up with only 38 employees. We have been in existence as a Division of a larger company since 2000. Since inception the head of the Division has been the Vice-President of the Region - this was the result of a quirk at […]