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- 'Love Commandos' shelter star-crossed Indian couples from honor killings
- Pro-lifers weigh in on the critical final minutes of the VP debate
- Pro-life news career yields religious vocation
- Boston's cardianl urges 'no' vote on assisted suicide
- Nobel laureate's moral victory: Divisive debate over stem-cell research won
- The poverty solution: marriage
| 'Love Commandos' shelter star-crossed Indian couples from honor killings
Posted: 14 Oct 2012 11:45 AM PDT There are no official figures on honor killings, because they often go unreported or family members pass them off as suicides or natural deaths, according to Human Rights Watch. |
| Pro-lifers weigh in on the critical final minutes of the VP debate
Posted: 14 Oct 2012 11:21 AM PDT Their 90-minute exchange skirted the bounds of civility, with Vice President Biden laughing openly during Ryan’s responses and interrupting him a reported 82 times. “The next debate Biden should have is with himself,” political strategist Ed Rollins told Fox News. “Paul Ryan was knowledgeable and tried to have a serious discussion on very important issues. Biden insisted on talking over him.” |
| Pro-life news career yields religious vocation
Posted: 14 Oct 2012 07:39 AM PDT After years of working as a pro-life news reporter, a Catholic journalist discovered that she had a vocation to be a contemplative nun and that God had been using her work to prepare her to answer the calling. |
| Boston's cardianl urges 'no' vote on assisted suicide
Posted: 14 Oct 2012 07:36 AM PDT Cardinal Seán O’Malley of Boston called on local voters to oppose a ballot measure legalizing physician-assisted suicide, warning against claims that there is no danger of a “slippery slope.” |
| Nobel laureate's moral victory: Divisive debate over stem-cell research won
Posted: 14 Oct 2012 06:24 AM PDT Shinya Yamanaka, a scientist at Kyoto University, loved stem-cell research. But he didn’t want to destroy embryos. So he figured out a way around the problem. In a paper published five years ago in Cell, Yamanaka and six colleagues showed how “induced pluripotent stem cells” could be derived from adult cells and potentially substituted, in research and therapy, for embryonic stem cells. |
| The poverty solution: marriage
Posted: 14 Oct 2012 03:10 AM PDT Parents' marriage and divorce is directly related to children's well-being. This is not just a rosy ideal but a reality repeatedly borne out by research. |
