November 16, 2007
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** DAILY READINGS:
First Reading:
Wis 13:1-9
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Psalm:
Ps 19:2-3, 4-5ab
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Gospel:
Lk 17:26-37
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** SAINT OF THE DAY:
St. Margaret of Scotland
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** TOP STORIES:
- Benedict XVI encourages missionaries pointing to signs of renewal
- Cardinal O'Malley rebukes Democrats on abortion
** MORE HEADLINES
- Globalization's effects to be examined by pontifical council
- Church in Poland encourages young people to wear "chastity ring
- Relic of St. John Chrysostom reportedly working miracles
- British doctor under investigation for helping patients not to have abortions
- Use of contraceptive pills increases risk of uterine cancer
- Italian soccer league invites Cardinal Bertone to join ethics committee
- More women than men being ordained for Church of England as attendance falls
- World Youth Day costs near $100 million
- Sen. Salazar says Americans should disobey Bible restrictions at Olympics
- Hotels substituting "intimacy kits" for Bibles
- Future cardinal asks Iraqi president to guarantee teaching of Christian religion in schools
- Catholic ethics institute sees monkey cloning announcement as a "double-edged sword"
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Benedict XVI encourages missionaries pointing to signs of renewal
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VATICAN CITY, November 16 (CNA) - Leaders of missionary communities from around the world gathered at the Vatican today to meet with Pope Benedict. During his discussion with the missionaries, he praised the increase in the number of lay faithful involved in evangelization and encouraged the heads of the religious orders to draw inspiration from their founders.
"Your assembly" the Pope told the group "bears eloquent witness to the continuing vitality of the missionary impulse in the Church and the spirit of communion uniting your members ... to the Successor of Peter and his universal apostolic ministry."
Their connection to the Peter's Successor "remains the criterion and guarantee of the spiritual fruitfulness of all missionary activity," Benedict XVI explained. Without this unifying connection, a foretaste of "God's plan in Christ for the whole human family" could not be experienced here on earth.
Looking at the worldwide effort to spread the Gospel, the Holy Father pointed to one of several promising signs of renewal over the last few decades. This beacon of hope "has been the growing desire of many lay men and women ... to cooperate generously in the 'missio ad gentes' (to the world). As Vatican Council II stressed, the work of evangelization is a fundamental duty incumbent upon the whole People of God."
"Given the extent and the importance of the contribution made by [lay people], ... the proper forms of their cooperation should naturally be governed by specific statutes and clear directives respectful of each institute's proper canonical identity."
Benedict XVI expressed his gratitude to all the missionaries who, "today as in the past, ... continue to leave their families and homes, often at great sacrifice, for the sole purpose of proclaiming the Good News of Christ and serving Him in their brothers and sisters. Many of them, also in our time, have heroically confirmed their preaching by the shedding of their blood, and contributed to establishing the Church in distant lands."
Despite the "decrease in the number of young people who are attracted to missionary societies, and a consequent decline in missionary outreach, ... the mission 'ad gentes' is still only beginning," said the Pope.
"While conscious of the challenges you face, I encourage you to follow faithfully in the footsteps of your founders, and to stir into flame the charisms and apostolic zeal which you have inherited from them, confident that Christ will continue to work with you and to confirm your preaching with signs of His presence and power."
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Cardinal O'Malley rebukes Democrats on abortion
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BOSTON, November 15 (CNA) - The U.S. Bishops have issued their strongest condemnation yet of pro-abortion views with their "Faithful Citizenship" document issued yesterday. Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston also has added his disapproval of pro-abortion candidates in comments to the Boston Globe saying that the support of Catholics for these politicians "borders on scandal".
Cardinal O'Malley voiced a sentiment that the bishops' latest citizenship document includes, namely that, despite his differences with the Republican Party over immigration policy, capital punishment, economic issues, and the war in Iraq, he views abortion as the most important moral issue facing policymakers.
Noting that many Catholics traditionally support Democrats, O'Malley reamed the Democratic Party for being "extremely insensitive to the church's position, on the gospel of life in particular, and on other moral issues."
When the cardinal was asked about the many voters who support Democrats who are in favor of abortion, O'Malley said, "I think that, at times, it borders on scandal as far as I'm concerned."
This near-scandal has caused Cardinal O'Malley to challenge his flock about their choices, but his admonitions have only resulted in confused reactions from them. "[W]hen I challenge people about this, they say, 'Well, bishop, we're not supporting [abortion],' " he said. "I think there's a need for people to very actively dissociate themselves from those unacceptable positions, and I think if they did that, then the party would have to change."
The vast majority of the U.S. Bishops seem to agree with Cardinal O'Malley since a full 98% of them approved the "Faithful Citizenship" document yesterday.
The statement goes beyond previous ones by explicitly declaring abortion, cloning, and embryonic research to be "intrinsically evil" and warning that support for such immoral acts could endanger a Catholic voter's salvation.
This time the bishops also took the further step of pointing out that abortion or any other act which destroys life is a more serious issue than any other, saying, "[t]he direct and intentional destruction of innocent human life is always wrong and is not just one issue among many."
In comments to Boston Globe reporter Michael Paulson, Cardinal O'Malley said, "In the past, there was always the fear that we were considering sort of the smorgasbord of issues, but without any prioritizing, or giving the impression that all issues are of equal value, and I think the emphasis on trying to help people form conscience is very, very important," he said. "The church is not trying to impose Catholic doctrine on the world, but we are trying to invite our people to take seriously their obligation to vote in a way that respects the moral law, the natural law, and takes into account the common good, care for the poor, and particularly the gospel of life, which is always the center of Catholic social teaching."
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Globalization's effects to be examined by pontifical council
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VATICAN CITY, November 16 (CNA) - The impact of globalization has led to changes in society that would have been unthinkable 40 years ago. Given this new societal atmosphere, the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace will be holding a meeting November 20 and 21to talk about Pope Paul VI's social encyclical "Populorum progressio".
"Problems and prospects of human development today, 40 years after 'Populorum progressio'," will also be examined at the second world congress of ecclesial organizations, to be held in Rome from November 22 to 24.
According to a communique from the pontifical council, its members and consultors "will reflect on the current validity of the historical papal document, with particular emphasis on the moral aspects of development, on new forms of poverty and globalization, on conflicts and disarmament, and on safeguarding and protecting human rights."
Among those due to participate in the plenary assembly alongside Cardinal Renato Martino and Bishop Giampaolo Crepaldi, respectively president and secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, are Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga S.D.B., archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and Archbishop Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya of Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo, president of Pax Christi.
More than 300 delegates from more than 80 countries on five continents are expected to participate in the second world congress of ecclesial organizations active in the sector of justice and peace. The specific theme of their meeting will be: "The 40th anniversary of 'Populorum progressio:' the development of all of man, the development of all mankind."
Participants, the communique reads, "will study the new situations that have come into being in the world since the publication of the historic document, and the current challenges of development in the light of the Church's social doctrine, in particular the questions of human ecology, pluralism and inter-cultural dialogue, and new forms of government in the context of globalization."
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Church in Poland encourages young people to wear "chastity ring
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WARSAW, November 16 (CNA) - The Catholic Church in Poland is encouraging young people to wear the "chastity ring" as a symbol of purity. The campaign's goal is to encourage young people to wear the ring as a sign of their desire to remain virgins until marriage.
According to the EFE news agency, the rings can be obtained at the Shrine of Blessed Karolina Kozka in southern Poland.
Karolina Kozka is considered the "Maria Goretti" of Poland. She was killed in 1914 for resisting a Russian soldier's attempt to rape her. She was 16 years old.
John Paul II beatified Karolina in 1987 and for Poles she is a symbol of the purity of young people.
The ring was designed by a local artisan and will soon be available in parishes across Poland and on the internet.
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Relic of St. John Chrysostom reportedly working miracles
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NICOSIA, November 16 (CNA) - Two miraculous cures have been reported in Cyprus as a result of contact with the skull of St. John Chrysostom, according to the Associated Press.
Father Paraskevas Agathonos claimed the visiting relic, which normally resides in a monastery in northern Greece, had healed a partially paralyzed teenager and a woman with a broken leg.
"The pain left, she got rid of the crutches and took off the cast," he said of a 42-year-old woman who allegedly recovered after visiting the relic Saturday.
The other cure is said to have involved 16-year old Panayiotis Panayiotou, who had been paralyzed in his right arm and the right side of his face following a brain hemorrhage. He reportedly regained full mobility after venerating the skull.
Panayiotou told private TV station Sigma that "the numbness was gone...yes, it was a miracle."
One layman, Kyriakos Kyriakou, was lined up with his wife and children among thousands of other Cypriots. "We came because we believe ... they said the relic worked miracles," Kyriakou said. "I might have reservations, but I still believe."
78 percent of Cypriots have been baptized into the Orthodox Church.
Saint John Chrysostom was a Father of the Church and a Patriarch of Constantinople. He was the author of the liturgy still celebrated in many Eastern churches. He died on November 14, 407.
His skull was kept in Constantinople, present-day Istanbul, until it was looted by crusaders in 1204. It later came to rest in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. In 2004, Pope John Paul II returned the relic to Orthodox officials as part of an effort to reconcile the two churches.
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British doctor under investigation for helping patients not to have abortions
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LONDON, November 16 (CNA) - LifeSiteNews.com is reporting that a well-known British doctor could be forced out of a job for helping women decide against having an abortion. Dr. Tammie Downes is under investigation for professional misconduct after she said in an interview with the Daily Mail that she had been instrumental in helping many women patients decide to continue to carry their children to term.
In the Daily Mail interview, Dr. Downes said she asked women in crisis pregnancies, "What would have to change to make you see things differently? What would help you to see this baby as good news and not bad news?"
Dr. Downes is under investigation by the General Medical Council and may lose the right to practice medicine.
The Guardian reports that Liberal Democrat MP, Dr. Evan Harris, Parliament's most vigorous abortion-crusader, denounced Dr. Downes to Health Minister Dawn Primarolo and asked for an investigation.
Downes responded that she had let her personal feelings about abortion influence her relationship with patients. She told The Observer, "I don't try to persuade anybody. I give them the facts and allow them space to think through the decision that they are making. It has to be the mother's choice. I have no right to make that choice for them." "But I do think it's my duty as a doctor to help a woman make that choice," she added. She said that about one third of women change their minds about abortion after seeing her.
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Use of contraceptive pills increases risk of uterine cancer
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LONDON, November 16 (CNA) - A study published by the prestigious British medical journal "The Lancet" has revealed that the contraceptive pill increases the risk of developing uterine cancer.
According to a new study, the risk is greater if a woman uses the pill during long periods of time and only disappears ten years after she has stopped taking it.
Experts analyzed 52,000 cases of women who participated in 24 different studies around the world. It is not first time experts have found a link between the pill and uterine cancer, but until now the link with the period of time the pill is used was not clear.
In the case of the United Kingdom the risk of developing the cancer in women who never took the pill averages 3.8 women out of a thousand, but it increases to 4 out of a thousand for those who took the pill for five years and 4.5 out of a thousand in those who took the pill for ten years.
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Italian soccer league invites Cardinal Bertone to join ethics committee
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ROME, November 16 (CNA) - The president of the Italian Soccer League, Antonio Matarrese, announced the creation of an ethics committee for soccer and said Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone to be a member.
"We will entrust soccer to the Church," Matarrese told the website Petrus, adding that "after the tragic events of last Sunday (which left one person dead after fans rioted at a soccer game) we are preparing to establish a consultative body on soccer made up of leaders, journalists and security officials, and an invitation to join has been extended to Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone."
"There was a sincere rapport with Cardinal Bertone, and so I consider it opportune to receive his wise counsels in order to come out of this critical phase through which Italian soccer is passing," he said.
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More women than men being ordained for Church of England as attendance falls
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LONDON, November 16 (CNA) - For the first time since its 1992 approval of female clergy, the Church of England reports that more women than men were ordained in 2006.
Last year 244 women and 234 men were ordained for ministry in the Church of England. A recent report indicates that the number of men serving as ministers may drop in half by 2025.
According to the Daily Telegraph, the church's Sunday attendance for the first time dropped below one million, out of a total population of 51 million. About 1.7 million attend a Church of England service each month.
The Church's General Synod approved the ordination of women in 1992. Some commentators believe the move has accelerated the decline in observant Anglicans.
Ruth Gledhill, religion correspondent at the London Times wrote, "The feminization of the ministry is one of the most significant trends of this generation. Acceptance of women in the pastoral role reverses centuries of Christian conviction and practice. It also leads to a redefinition of the church and its ministry. Once women begin to fill and represent roles of pastoral leadership men withdraw. This is true, not only in the pulpit, but in the pews. The evacuation of male worshippers from liberal churches is a noticeable phenomenon."
Joel Hilliker claimed in The Trumpet that the 400,000 members of the Traditional Anglican Communion seeking union with Rome represent a trend. Though a Protestant, he suggested the decline of Anglicanism would benefit the Catholic Church in England. "What is left in this nation is a spiritual vacuum - a vacuum that provides the Church of Rome the perfect opportunity to move in. For as Britain has become more liberal, Roman Catholicism has grown more conservative, increasingly presenting itself as a rock of stability in an uncertain world," he wrote.
The Church of England's General Synod is debating allowing women to be ordained to the episcopacy, which other churches in the Anglican Communion have already done.
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World Youth Day costs near $100 million
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SYDNEY, November 16 (CNA) - A $40 million taxpayer-funded compensation package to the horseracing industry has pushed the costs of Sydney's upcoming World Youth Day close to $100 million, The Australian reports.
The agreement confirms Randwick racecourse as the site of World Youth Day's overnight vigil and Papal Mass.
Negotiations with Randwick trainers and horse owners over lost race revenues, the stabling of horses, and the necessity of renovating the site for the event were quite heated over the last several months.
However, Racing NSW chief executive Peter V'landys said the anger had subsided and the vice-president of the NSW Trainers Association, John O'Shea, described the result as "acceptable".
"The best result for us was always that World Youth Day was not going to be held at Randwick," Mr O'Shea said. The costs will cover the relocation of some 700 horses to other racetracks and the refurbishment of the site after World Youth Day ends.
The Archdiocese of Sydney is paying between $15 and $20 million towards the event, while funds from corporate partners and pilgrims will also help defray the costs. The federal government is paying $55 million for the event, while the state government is dedicating $20 million.
Australian government officials hope for $150 million in economic benefits from the event, which may attract 100,000 foreign visitors.
World Youth Day events will begin July 15. As many as 500,000 people are expected for the Papal Mass.
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Sen. Salazar says Americans should disobey Bible restrictions at Olympics
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WASHINGTON DC, November 16 (CNA) - Several U.S. senators have weighed in on the Chinese Olympics web site's recommendation that entering visitors bring no more than one Bible into the country, Cybercast News Service reports.
Senator Ken Salazar (D-Col.) was asked whether Americans traveling to China should disobey the restrictions. "I think so," said Salazar. "It's a trampling on a freedom that we cherish in this country that's a universal freedom. I don't think that kind of constriction on something that is such an international global celebration is something that ought to be tolerated."
Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) said he wasn't aware of the Chinese policy. He declined to comment specifically on the matter, except to say, "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. That's really strange."
Advice for visitors to the 2008 Olympic Games on the Beijing Olympics official web site initially read: "Any printed material, film, tapes that are 'detrimental to China's politics, economy, culture and ethics' are also forbidden to bring into China."
This was immediately followed by a caution about Bibles:
"Note: Each traveler is recommended to take no more than one Bible into China."
Wang Hui, executive deputy director of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games, explained the policy, telling the South China Morning Post last week: "Athletes and other individuals can bring with them their own Bibles. But no one can bring in multiple copies for public distribution."
Wang Baodong, spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., said to Cybercast News Service that the prohibition would extend to a movie about the Dalai Lama or a U.S. State Department report on human rights in China, among other things, if they are intended for distribution and not "private use."
Asked how officials would know if visitors bringing the State Department report intended it for distribution or for private use, Wang said, "I think the people at the customs and border-check at the Chinese airports are very much professional. They know how to handle the situation, I think."
"In addition to violation of religious liberties, the Chinese government is guilty of gross hypocrisy," Catholic League President Bill Donohue said in a November press release "On the Web site of the Beijing Olympic Games, there are several comments lauding religious rights."
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), while not advising anyone defy the law on purpose, suggested anyone who can bring a Bible into the country should, "and then leave it there afterwards."
"I would not advise anybody to defy the rule, but I would have every American and everybody in the world bring a Bible in there," Hatch said in an interview. "If they can bring one, let's bring as many as we can. That means hundreds of thousands of Bibles. So it would be good for China to have the Holy Word, but I'd be the last to advise them or insult them or to violate their law."
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Hotels substituting "intimacy kits" for Bibles
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NEW YORK, November 16 (CNA) - Some upscale hotels are no longer stocking their rooms with a Bible and are replacing them with technology or "kits" promoting sex.
For instance, the Soho Grand Hotel in Manhattan provides guest rooms with iPod docking stations, flat-screen TVs, and a complimentary goldfish, but not a Bible. Hotel spokeswoman Lori DeBlois told Newsweek magazine that adding Bibles to rooms would mean she "would have to take care of every guest's belief."
The American Hotel and Lodging Association reported that since 2001 the number of luxury hotels with religious materials in their rooms has dropped by 18 percent.
Newsweek magazine reported that upscale accommodations nationwide are "doing away with the Bible as a standard room amenity." Some hotels stock complimentary condoms, but not Bibles. Newsweek suggests the removal of Bibles is due to a decrease in business travel and an increase in leisure travel.
"The new Indigo hotel in Scottsdale, Ariz., a 'branded boutique' launched by InterContinental, also has no Bibles," the report said.
Officials at that hotel, however, did offer a promotion on a "One Night Stand" package.
"Our 'One Night Stand' summer packages provide a cost effective way to enjoy our lower rates and remain in the heart of the active art, shopping, dining and nightlife venues of Old Town Scottsdale," said Laura Godfrey, sales manager for the hotel. "With this package, you'll feel good about the decision you made to stay in the area and stay the night."
That package includes a "late check-out time" of 1 p.m.
The American Family Association commented on the decline of hotel Bibles in an e-mail alert, saying "Now is the time to let the motel chains know that you want them to keep the Gideon Bibles." It stated "for [the hotel corporation] Accor, providing travelers with sexual paraphernalia is more important than the Bible. Accor hotels owns several chains including: Motel 6, Sofitel, Pullman, Novotel, Mercure, Suitehotel, Ibis, All Seasons, Etap, Formule 1. While these chains are mostly located in Europe, Accor is expanding to many U.S. markets."
The AFA said "without action now, it is simply a matter of time before other chains remove the Bibles."
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Future cardinal asks Iraqi president to guarantee teaching of Christian religion in schools
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ROME, November 15 (CNA) - The director of cultural affairs of the Patriarchate of Babylonia of the Chaldeans and the rector of Babel College, Auxiliary Bishop Jacques Ishaq, said this week Iraq's President Talabani has promised Chaldean Patriarch Mar Emmanuel III Delly he will intervene to ensure that "Christian students will be able to take a test on the Christian religion at the end of the year," which means that the faith will be allowed to be taught.
In an interview with the Office for Migrant Ministry of the Archdiocese of Turin, Bishop Ishaq said, "The Iraqi educational system is based on an evaluation that is obtained by the sum total of the final grades in each subject. In many schools, the only religious instruction is in the Islamic faith, and consequently, Christian students find it much more difficult to obtain grades similar to those of their Muslim counterparts."
For this reason, Chaldean Patriarch Mar Emmanuel III Delly—who will be made a cardinal on November 24 by Pope Benedict XVI—"has asked the Iraqi president to guarantee that the Christian religion can be taught in public schools where the percentage of the Christian students is around 25 percent."
Bishop Ishaq pointed out, however, the one of the problems is "finding teachers who teach the Christian religion. The fleeing and forced emigration of Christians has resulted in many educated persons leaving the country. In addition, there are the problems of the chaos in Baghdad and which have reached the Ministry of Instruction and those responsible for such decisions who at times can obstruct or encourage laws that favor the Christian minority."
Despite the problems, he said, "Christians are still perceived as bearers of culture."
According to the SIR news agency, before the nationalization of schools in Iraq in 1972, "Christian schools were considered the best in the country, such that the most influential Muslim families sent their children to these schools. Some of these students are leaders today in government and mosques."
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Catholic ethics institute sees monkey cloning announcement as a "double-edged sword"
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THORNWOOD, NY, November 15 (CNA) - Yesterday, Oregon-based scientist Shoukrat Mitalipov succeeded in cloning monkey embryos and deriving embryonic stem cells from them. The Westchester Institute, a Catholic ethics think-tank that has engaged in the stem cell debate, reacted with concern to the announcement calling the breakthrough a "double-edged sword."
In a press release on Wednesday, the Executive Director, Fr. Thomas Berg stated, "Insomuch as research on cloned primates can provide basic biological insights into human disease and tissue growth, this is a golden opportunity. The risk lies in applying the cloning technique to humans. Such a pursuit, if successful, would be one of humanity's darkest endeavors."
Mitalipov's success with monkey embryo cloning provides the theoretical foundation for scientists to pursue so-called "therapeutic" cloning in humans. Embryonic stem cells from a cloned human embryo, because they would be genetically identical to a patient, could be used in potential treatments without prompting an immune rejection response. However, the scientific community generally agrees that prospective treatments from embryonic stem cells are likely many years away.
"Notwithstanding this new breakthrough, it's still not clear that researchers will have success if they apply Mitalipov's techniques to human cells," said Fr. Berg. "It would be unfortunate to divert time, energy, and funding into human cloning, when much needed insights into treating human diseases and maladies can be garnered just as easily from cloned monkeys.
"I spoke with Dr. Mitalipov and he himself underlined how this new kind of research in monkey cloning can actually further our pursuit of ethically uncontroversial alternatives in stem cell research, such as direct cell reprogramming," continued Fr. Berg. "If scientists can learn how monkey egg cells reprogram body cells to an embryonic-like state, this could give us the key to reprogramming human body cells without having to damage or destroy, let alone clone, human embryos."
Direct Cell Reprogramming is conceptually like taking any cell in the human body and "hitting rewind," sending that cell's nucleus back to a state which would render the cell "pluripotent", capable of producing any tissue type in the human body, equivalent in versatility to human embryonic stem cells. Furthermore, these stem cells would be genetically matched to the person who donated the body cells.
Fr. Berg concluded, "Scientists have repeatedly noted that there is still a lot of basic biological research that needs to be done before embryonic stem cells are ever going to lead to cures. That biology can be done perfectly well in monkeys. The supposed urgency to press on to human cloning is unfounded."
The Westchester Institute for Ethics and the Human Person was founded in 1998 to renew, deepen, and promote the Western tradition of moral reflection. The institute pursues its objectives in cultural, political, and academic settings. Through seminars, lecture series, and research fellowships, the Westchester Institute seeks to reinvigorate contemporary moral discourse at all levels.
More information: visit www.westchesterinstitute.net or contact Michelle Gress at mgress@westchesterinstitute.net.
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