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Harvard Catholics expressed relief yesterday over Law??s resignation...
...Catholic Church itself. Indeed, in a world where the Catholic Church has come to mean a tightly-knit, spiritual community and not a priesthood divorced from the congregation, the Boston Archdiocese has become increasingly reactionary. Instead of opening its doors to abuse victims, Church officials have withdrawn. And Cardinal Law??s overarching entanglement between matters of finance and morality seems like a throwback to the days of the medieval church, when the fiscal and moral power of the church led to the impunity and ethical depravity of the elite clergy...
...Canadian legislature, however, may choose to revise the 1869 law??a move the court decision encouraged. It commissioned a report from the Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee that favored granting patents for non-human higher life forms, Morrow said...
Constitutionally acceptable limits on political financiers are nothing new. There are already plenty of laws on the books regulating campaign contributions that the judiciary has upheld. The most contentious provision of the new law??the restriction of unregulated “soft money” donations to national political parties—simply closes a large loophole from Watergate-era legislation that fundraisers have masterfully exploited for years...
Twelve of Nigeria’s northern states have recently adopted Sharia Law??the traditional Islamic law, which prescribes harsh punishments for adultery and non-marital sex; these laws have created serious problems for non-Muslim Nigerians who happen to live within the jurisdiction of Sharia. But instead of resolving the complicated question about whether Nigeria will be ruled by religious or secular law, the Nigerian federal government has decided to sidestep the problem...