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Church in the WorldSenators to debate stem-cell research billUnited States Timothy Lavin - 14 April 2007A stem-cell research bill to be debated by the US Senate next week would "force taxpayers to encourage deliberate attacks on innocent human life in the name of medical progress", according to the US bishops' conference. The Democratic bill, which is nearly identical to one vetoed by President Bush last year, would expand federal funding for research on all new lines of embryonic stem cells. In a letter to the Senate, Cardinal Justin Rigali, who heads the bishops' pro-life efforts, said that the bill would encourage research that was technologically dubious and morally indefensible. The house will also consider a competing Republican bill, which gained the White House's endorsement last week - a compromise measure that would finance research on embryos unable to develop into foetuses but whose cells are still viable for research, a technique that Cardinal Rigali called "morally acceptable". n The Diocese of San Diego last week followed through on a promise to release the names of priests accused of sexual abuse, making public a list of 38 clergymen who it said faced "credible allegations". But lawyers for the victims immediately complained that as many as 30 abusive priests had not been included. More than half of the priests implicated on the list, which dates back to 1928, have died and none of those still living currently serves in the diocese. |
 In this week’s issueMaking markets moral Iron and velvet Love in a Catholic climate Someone to talk to A good Lent takes planning South American surprise Can the Church support abuse victims on its own terms? Elena Curti Is the Church too slow in recognising that academies are the future for Catholic schools? Christopher Lamb Goodwin the scapegoat Elena Curti The pain of being a coeliac Catholic Sr M, guest contributor The Church's moral obligation to victims of clerical sexual abuse Speeches from this week's conference in Rome This week in Rome bishops and religious superiors met at the first Vatican-backed symposium devoted to forging a global response to the crisis of clerical sexual abuse that has disgraced ... Archbishop voices 'shame and sorrow' after priest's abuse trial Longley to visit parishes 'damaged' by Walsh Today, Tuesday 7 February, Bede Walsh, who served as a Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Birmingham, has been convicted by a jury, following a 10-day trial at Stoke-on-Trent ...
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