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Washington D.C., Mar 9, 2017 / 04:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- It sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie – being able to “upload” our minds to computers to live on after we die, to freeze our bodies only to bring them back in the future, or to pop pills to enhance our mood and intelligence.While these may seem like impossible notions, these are the kinds of things the transhumanism and posthumanism movements are hoping for and working toward.However, as with most technological advancements, these proposals have bioethicists and theologians questioning: just because we can, does that mean we should?Transhumanism is a loosely-defined cultural, intellectual and technical movement that describes itself as seeking to “to overcome fundamental human limitations” including death, aging, and natural physical, mental and psychological limitations, says humanity+, a transhumanist online community.The movement overlaps greatly with posthumanism, which posits that a...
Washington D.C., Mar 9, 2017 / 04:45 pm (CNA).- Family members of boxing great Muhammed Ali say they were detained at an airport for their religion and have linked the incident President Donald Trump’s travel ban, which they are challenging on religious freedom grounds.“There shouldn't be a travel ban,” said Khalilah Camacho Ali, the boxer’s former wife. “If I don't speak up now, they're going to keep harassing us.”She said Muhammed Ali’s family has been fighting for religious rights “for a very long time,” adding “We are going to continue to fight for religious justice.”Muhammed Ali, Jr. and his mother Khalilah Camacho Ali, were detained and questioned Feb. 7 at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport as they returned from a Black History Month event in Jamaica, the Associated Press reports. They said they were asked if they were Muslim and a family spokesman charged they were flagged for thei...
IMAGE: CNS/Carol GlatzBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When a child-protection advocateresigned from a papal advisory board in early March, she did so because ofgrowing frustration with persistent resistance and a "toxic" sense ofsuperiority from some in the Roman Curia. A number of church leaders on the front lines promotingchild protection policies have also long noted the biggest challenge they faceis a cultural one -- an aversion to the unknown, playing it saferather than speaking up, and denial and defensiveness to protect an institutionover a possible victim.Despite four years of Pope Francis' calls to break downwalls erected out of fear and ivory towers built on arrogance, Marie Collinssaid a kind of enclave mentality could still be found in some corners of theCuria.While there are many people who are "open and morewilling to listen and learn," the Curia and the Vatican tend to be "verymuch a closed-in system where people are talking to others with the same views andnot b...
SAN JOSE PINULA, Guatemala (AP) -- A blaze that killed at least 34 girls at a shelter for troubled youths erupted when some of them set fire to mattresses to protest rapes and other mistreatment at the badly overcrowded institution, the parent of one victim said Thursday....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Before most people are out of bed, Donald Trump is watching cable news....
SEATTLE (AP) -- The Latest on Hawaii's lawsuit and legal efforts by other U.S. states challenging President Donald Trump's travel ban (all times local):...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The top U.S. commander in the Middle East signaled Thursday that there will be a larger and longer American military presence in Syria to accelerate the fight against the Islamic State group and quell friction within the complicated mix of warring factions there....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump was not aware that his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, had worked to further the interests of the government of Turkey before appointing him, the White House said Thursday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional investigators are demanding documents and contacting witnesses in a wide-ranging probe of the Defense Department's troubled anti-propaganda efforts against the Islamic State....
NEW YORK (AP) -- WikiLeaks has offered to help the likes of Google and Apple identify the software holes used by purported CIA hacking tools - and that puts the tech industry in something of a bind....
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