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Ethics and Culture in the News: World

• Vienna's Cardinal Christof Schönborn called an international symposium last week to discuss Europe's endangered future.  Center Director, David Solomon, was among the distinguished invited participants.  Read more here.

• The Pontifical Academy for Life gathered on February 27-28 to address "The Human Embryo Before Implantation: Scientific Update and Bioethical Considerations."  Read more here and here.

• Fr. Lorenzo Albacete reflects on Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical, Deus Caritas Est. Read his reflection at the New York Times (requires log-in).

• When Cardinal, Ratzinger delivered four lectures on Europe's Crisis of Culture.  Here is "Excludes God from the Public Conscience."  See also the next two lectures, "A Confused Ideology of Freedom Leads to Dogmatism" and "Meaning and Limits of the Present Rationalist Culture."

• Read Ralph McInerny's profiles of some Catholic writers.  Read Notre Dame News and Information's profile of Ralph McInerny.

• Archbishop Charles Chaput of the Archdiocese of Denver gives his opinion on Harry Potter and parenting. The article.

• Read the ZENIT interview of Notre Dame Law School professors Rick Garnett and Paolo Carozza on "Church-State Relations in U.S. and Europe." The article.

• The Washington Post writer Jonathan Yardley reflects on the life and work of author Flannery O'Connor. The article.
  
  
• Archbishop Charles Chaput (Archdiocese of Denver, Colorado) gives his opinion on Harry Potter and parenting, July 20, 2005. Read So Then, What's the Verdict on Harry Potter?.
  

• The daylight slaying of University of Illinois at Chicago historian Peter D'Agostino on June 22 remains a mystery.  The latest as of July 8, 2005.
  
  
• The President's Council on Bioethics presented a report looking to alternative sources of stem cells.  Read about the report in the article by Zenit, which also refers to the U.S. Bishops' Conference recent poll suggesting that the majority of Americans oppose embryonic stem cell cloning for any purpose.
  

• See the article reporting the first UK scientists to clone a human embryo successfully.
  
  
• In an editorial piece in the Waco Herald Tribune, pastor of Saint Joseph's Catholic Church Father Timothy Vaverek discusses the roles of science and ethics in the stem cell debate, maintaining that the debate is not about science but about culture, law and ethics. The article.
  
  
• The 60th anniversary of end of World War II occasioned a Vatican response.  Archbishop Celestino Migliore, permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, suggested to the General Assembly that peace is possible only if we respect life.  The statement.
  
  
• The BBC reports that "the creator of Dolly the sheep has been granted a licence to clone human embryos for medical research." The story.
  
  
• The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to intervene in the case of Terri Schindler Schiavo, the Florida woman whose parents are fighting against her husband to keep her feeding tube in place. The article.