Human Rights for Human Embryos: No to Deadly Embryonic Stem Cell Research
A human embryo is not distinct in kind from a human being, but a human being at an early stage of development.We must speak for human embryonic Life as we speak for all human life. We must expose and oppose this new form of genetic slavery wherein an entire class of human persons is being labeled as property to be used by those who are more powerful. Every "extraction" of stem cells from an embryo kills a human embryonic person. It is immoral and should be illegal.
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23d Sunday: The Crucible. The Happy Priest on The Meaning of Suffering
Too many of our contemporaries seek an easy life without suffering, without sacrifice, without renunciation, without mortification. Many people would like to stand under the cross of Jesus and cry out as did the jeering crowd on the first Good Friday, "Come down from the cross." However, there is only one Jesus and he is the Crucified Jesus who rose from the dead. Christianity without the Cross is not Christianity. Only through the Cross of Jesus can we gain salvation. It is precisely in the crucible of intense suffering that we either come close to God or rebel against his loving presence.
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