With new technology that aims to manufacture a human embryo without sperm or egg, are scientists coming too close to playing God?
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Common ground in the abortion debate is obvious: Support mothers.
Pro-lifers and pro-choicers should both want to help women and families be in a place to choose to have another child.
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How can we get beyond the battle of the sexes?
Let’s begin to enlist both left and right in service of the vulnerable—using the ideological language they already accept.
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What Loyola’s Final Four run can teach us about Catholic schools and sports
The unlikely journey of the Loyola Chicago Ramblers participates in a national conversation where, for three weeks anyway, we are all invited to consider what counts when it comes to personal, communal and institutional values in contemporary culture.
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Catholic-evangelical relations are richer than the conspiracies Civilta Cattolica described
Evangelicals have helped the Catholic Church at the highest levels.
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The politics of abortion will get more complicated in 2017
Activists do not yet seem to have developed plans for engaging voters on the opposing side.
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The climate crisis and the insidious idea that ‘things must get worse before they get better’
One can wait for the climate apocalypse to come, or one can see that it is happening already, especially in the pockets and places far from centers of power, where people live closest to the earth.
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Why Paris matters: peacemaking means responding to climate change
As recent events make painfully clear, there is a direct link between climate change and political unrest. The war in Syria has many fathers. But one of these is surely climate change.
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Secularism and Social Media: Advancing religious freedom and democratic governance in troubled times
We live in dangerous times. The assault of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria on Baghdad, as well as other sectarian violence, challenge the very essence of the human person. No longer is this merely a clash of civilizations, but a struggle for the preservation of human life. Since religion or reli
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Of Value and Values: What do our investment decisions say about who we are?
In their widely cited book Securities Analysis, co-authors Benjamin Graham and David Dodd introduce what they call the “value investing” method. “Without some defined standards of value for judging whether securities are over- or under priced in the market place,” they write,