Science playing God? Sheila May 24, 2010 The media are having a heyday with the news that researchers have created the first synthetic cell. Is this the Read More
A few words about the volcanic eruption Sheila April 17, 2010 The scientific summits and debates over global warming and climate change can get pretty dense, but meanwhile we’re having Read More
The State is not the source of Sheila February 16, 2010 Religiously informed people already know that, but Pope Benedict XVI brought up that point again when he addressed “problems revolving Read More
100 world leaders gathered in a room Sheila December 21, 2009 Sounds like the start of a joke, right? The way some see it, it is. Caritas Internationalis– the international consortium Read More
Don’t understand climate negotiations? Sheila December 16, 2009 Me neither. It reminds me of a story I linked to some time ago by a financial guy who didn’Read More
We want world peace Sheila December 15, 2009 Pope Benedict has issued a call for cosmic peace. In his Message this year the Pope presents “a cosmic vision Read More
Media pollution Sheila December 14, 2009 Pope Benedict asked the Copenhagen summit on climate change to consider another way the air gets dirtied, and we’re Read More
Heard about adult stem cell news lately? Sheila December 2, 2009 Research on them is “rocking and rolling along”, as Wesley Smith puts it. It is really quite remarkable how impressively Read More
Where are the lines? Sheila November 9, 2009 People can agree on the fundamental principles of civil rights, respect for human dignity and the existence of – and need Read More
What does a bioethicist do? Sheila October 30, 2009 It’s already been an intriguing question, one that came up a few times over the past year on ‘America’Read More
