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Washington D.C., May 18, 2017 / 03:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Within the next 10-20 years, a new and controversial fertility technology called in vitro gametogenesis could make it possible to manipulate skin cells into creating a human baby.However, this groundbreaking research has caused push-back from some critics, like Fr. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, director of education at the National Catholic Bioethics Center, who says IVG would turn procreation into a transaction.“IVG extends the faulty logic of IVF by introducing additional steps to the process of manipulating the origins of the human person, in order to satisfy the desires of customers and consumers,” Fr. Pacholczyk told CNA in an email interview.“The technology also offers the possibility of introducing further fractures into parenthood, distancing children from their parents by multiplying the number of those involved in generating the child, so that 3-parent embryos, or even more parents, may become involved,&rdq...
Washington D.C., May 18, 2017 / 03:08 pm (CNA).- If you’re an ardent fan of U2, you may know that lead vocalist Bono loves the Psalms. The 57-year-old Irish musician has spoken out several times about the inspiration that he draws from reading the Biblical hymns.And now, Bono says the Psalms offer a lesson for aspiring Christian musicians: If you want to create real art, you need to be way more honest than is typical of the “Christian music” genre.“Creation screams God’s name. So you don’t have to stick a sign on every tree,” he said in a new video interview, released last month.The Irish rock icon rejected the idea that music or art must be explicitly labeled Christian and limited to overtly Christian messages in order to glorify God.“This has really, really got to stop. I want to hear a song about the breakdown in your marriage, I want to hear songs of justice, I want to hear rage at injustice and I want to hear a song so good that i...
Tampa, Florida, May 18, 2017 / 04:30 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Funded by a parish in Florida, a new Catholic church is being built in Cuba and is the first the island nation has seen in 60 years.Father Ramon Hernandez, pastor of St. Lawrence church in Tampa, said he and his parishioners are happy to see how their funds have financed the project, and said he looks forward to the inauguration Mass taking place early next year.Saint Lawrence provided $95,000 in donations for the church's construction in Sandino, Cuba, located in the western corner of the country.  The new church, alongside a refurbished synagogue in Havana, shows Cuba's progress in religious freedom since Fidel Castro ushered in communism during his revolution in the 1960s. Atheism was established as the belief system for the entire state, and many religious leaders were faced with persecution. In 1992, however, Cuba was made a secular state.  “Cuba is changing,” Fr. Hernandez said, according t...
Vatican City, May 18, 2017 / 04:30 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In an afterword to a book on silence and prayer recently authored by Cardinal Robert Sarah, Benedict XVI praised the prelate as a spiritual model given the depth of his interior life, saying the liturgy is safe in his hands.“Cardinal Sarah is a spiritual teacher, who speaks out of the depths of silence with the Lord, out of his interior union with him, and thus really has something to say to each one of us,” Benedict XVI said.The emeritus Pope added that we ought to be grateful to Pope Francis for his 2014 appointment of Cardinal Sarah as prefect of the Congregation of Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.The liturgy, Benedict said, has a certain type of “specialization” which ultimately “can talk right past the essential thing unless it is grounded in a deep, interior union with the praying Church, which over and over again learns anew from the Lord himself what adoration is.”...
By Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- If the Catholic Church recognizes as"worthy of belief" only the initial alleged apparitions of Mary at Medjugorje,it would be the first time the church distinguished between phases of a singleevent, but it also would acknowledge that human beings and a host ofcomplicating factors are involved, said a theological expert in Mariology.Servite Father Salvatore Perrella, president of thePontifical Institute Marianum and a member of the commission now-retired PopeBenedict XVI established to study the Medjugorje case, said that although PopeFrancis has not yet made a formal pronouncement on the presumed apparitions,"he thought it was a good idea to clear some of the fog."The pope's remarks to journalists May 13 on his flight fromPortugal to Rome "were a surprise, but he told the truth," FatherPerrella told Catholic News Service May 18. "For four years, thecommission established by Pope Benedict investigated, interrogated, listened, studiedand debated t...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Chaz MuthBy Carol ZimmermannWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Dominican Sister Marie Bernadette Thompsoncan't help but see things through a teacher's eyes after spending eight yearsteaching elementary and high school students and belonging to an order whose charismis education and the faith formation of young people.But the42-year-old sister, who has been council coordinator for the Council of MajorSuperiors of Women Religious since 2014, also is not opposed to being a studentparticularly when it comes to learning new ways to engage others in the faithand spread the Gospel message. She hopes to pick up some pointers from other churchleaders from around the country this summer at the "Convocation ofCatholic Leaders: The Joy of the Gospel in America" July 1-4 in Orlando,Florida. Theconvocation, sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, is aninvitation-only event meant to give the 3,000 participants expected to attend abetter understanding of what it means to be mission...
BOSTON (AP) -- While other Harvard University students were writing papers for their senior theses, Obasi Shaw was busy rapping his....
SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- The governor of Oregon has pardoned a fourth-grade boy who swiped a hazelnut and a pen during a recent tour of the state Capitol....
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning is revealing her new look as a woman, after being freed from a Kansas military prison and a 35-year sentence for leaking classified materials....
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