Where is Cardinal Sepe?

I don't read Italian at all well, and working my way through a post at Settimo Cielo, e.g., can easily take a half hour: I can take the superficial sense of a simple declarative sentence fairly well but beyond that, alas....  This horrible state of affairs in...

Australians on verge of allowing human cloning

The Australian Senate seems to be prepared to pass a bill that would permit somatic nuclear cell transfer i.e. cloning, unfortunately.  The Australian indicates that "if the bill passes through the Senate, it is certain to win approval in the House of...

Stern measures against the 'liberal' West

An essay at Spiked by Daniel Ben-Ami, who argues that the mad rush to ameliorate the malign effects of climate change is in reality an attack on the market economy "informed by a neurotic small-mindedness"."More dishonest is [the British government-commissioned Stern]...

Despots of the world, unite!

Claudia Rosett reports, with her accustomed acerbic disbelief, on the 6th Conference on New and Restored Democracies, sponsored under the auspices of the United Nations Orgainisation in Doha, Qatar."For starters, the host country, Qatar, which has now taken over the...