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Bulletin for 4th Sunday (23.12.2007)Download/View Sunday Bulletin from Dec. 23 2007Comments (0) 20.12.2007. 23:49 Sermon Illustrations Glowing Cats
Scientists from South Korea have come out and stated that they have created cloned cats which glow red when exposed to UV rays.
Scientists created these cloned cats by working with their genetic code of the donor cats. The changes were moved to these clones. Kong II-Keun led the team of scientists who produced three cats which glowed red. They had altered fluorescent protein genes.
Skin cels were taken from a Turkish Angora female cat. From here a virus was used to input the red glowing color into the cloned cats.
Scientists have stated that this will open up a great deal of possibilities for the future in medicine. They stated that if you can pass along code through cloning in this manner to make cats glow, then you may be able to do more complex things which would allow them to create treatments for various diseases in both humans and animals.
Kong II-Keun is a professor at Gyeongsang University. The team, as stated produced these three cloned cats, which they hope will help them develop cures for human genetic diseases. We will have to wait and see.Comments (0) 17.12.2007. 10:46 Canada Post seeksCanada seeks author of nasty letters from Santa
Fri 14 Dec 2007, 15:51 GMT
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's post office and police are trying to track down a "rogue elf" who wrote obscene letters to children on behalf of Santa Claus, a newspaper reported on Friday.
The Ottawa Citizen said at least 10 nasty letters had been delivered to little girls and boys in Ottawa who wrote to Santa this year care of the North Pole, which has a special H0H 0H0 Canadian postal code. Return letters from Santa are in fact written by an 11,000-strong army of Canada Post employees and volunteers.
"We firmly believe there is just one rogue elf out there," a Canada Post spokeswoman told the paper.
Canada Post's popular "Write to Santa" program -- which last year delivered more than a million letters to children in Canada and around the world -- has been shut down in Ottawa until the offender is caught.
Comments (0) 17.12.2007. 10:40 Advent 3 Dec.16 BulletinDownload/View Sunday Bulletin from Dec. 16 2007Comments (0) 17.12.2007. 10:38 Commiunion Comments (0) 12.12.2007. 00:25 Our Lady of GuadelupePastoral Message on National Day of Prayer for Aboriginal Peoples
10 December 2007
Marking 12 December 2007 as the fifth anniversary of the National Day of Prayer for Aboriginal Peoples, the Catholic Aboriginal Council for Reconciliation has published a pastoral message.
In 2002, the Council first proclaimed 12 December as the National Aboriginal Day of Prayer as an occasion to invite Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Catholics to unite in prayer and spiritual solidarity.
Full Message from CCCBComments (0) 12.12.2007. 00:03 CCCB against capital punishmentOpen letter of the CCCB to Prime Minister of Canada against capital punishment:
It is basic Catholic teaching that the life and dignity of each human person must be respected and protected without exception. This should especially be true for democracies which are founded on respect for the rights and dignity of each person.
As taught in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 2267, civil authorities should limit themselves to non-lethal means to defend and protect people’s safety from an aggressor, “as these are more in keeping with the concrete conditions of the common good and more in conformity with the dignity of the human person.”
[Full Article from the CCCB website] Comments (0) 12.12.2007. 00:01
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