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This, however, became lost on today’s students of Catholicism because the past generation focused on the Humanae Vitae’s stance against birth control more than its reworking of Catholic sexual philosophy. From her own experience, Cahill asserted, many Catholic students seem to care more about the apparent obsolescence of laws than forbid pre-marital sex than they do about issues like birth control. To promote abstinence today, therefore, Cahill argued, Catholic pedagogues ought to associate sex not merely with procreation but also with “commitment” and “integrity...
...pillow in his hotel room - some reports have it as an injection of a chemical that induces a heart attack - and also at the airport as they left the country immediately afterward. But since Israel is well known to have carried out such daring targeted killings in the past, most observers in the region - including in Israel - have come to the same conclusion. (See the top 10 assassination plots...
...unlike such assassinations in the past, this one could have serious diplomatic consequences for Israel. It would appear that whoever was responsible underestimated Dubai's security capability. The city-state used sophisticated computer programs to quickly sift through its massive pool of security-camera footage and pinpoint the movements and travel documents of the alleged killers. More embarrassingly, the Dubai authorities are claiming that the hit team stole the identities of Israeli dual-national citizens, and traveled into Dubai using false British, Irish and French passports. Now the governments of those countries are promising swift investigations into the matter, while...
...outrage surrounding the case are overdone and will blow over. All countries fighting foreign terrorists, they say, have to engage in the occasional bit of wet work, and the Hamas commander - apparently the man in charge of taking weapons into Gaza - was a legitimate target in such spy games. "Past experience shows that disputes in this area tend to be treated as belonging to the special, sealed-off category of 'national security,'" wrote Jonathan Spyer in the Jerusalem Post. "Where states have good reasons to maintain healthy ties with one another, such incidents are rarely allowed to muddy the waters...