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...Ignacio Torreblanca, a senior research fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), said such a scenario would effectively split the E.U. in two. "The question is whether Ireland can oblige other Europeans to reject a treaty which they do indeed desire," he said. "So what is the alternative? The answer lies in the treaty coming into force in countries in favor of it, providing they make up two thirds or three quarters of member states and the E.U. population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Irish Rebuff Sends Europe Reeling | 6/13/2008 | See Source »

...know it? The implication, that there may be a brief period during which abortion is licit, is not new in the church, though it has been a minor refrain in Catholic theology and explicitly rejected many times by the Vatican. An influential 17th century theologian named Torreblanca taught that before the fetus is animated by the soul, a woman may have an abortion if she is in danger of death or in danger of losing her reputation. Thomas Aquinas, the greatest of the medieval theologian-philosophers, had opened the same door in the 13th century with his view that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Catholic View | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

Even aging (79) but vigorous President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo was sick,* his throat inflamed from an attack of the flu. Also down: Jorge Torreblanca, the Minister of Health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: The Flu Spreads | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

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