Really Slippery Slope

1. The slippery slope is quickly becoming an elevator shaft. The Times endorses cloning yesterday, without using the term explicitly. What first becomes permissible eventually becomes obligatory.

2. The USCCB has set up a new web page with resources on conscience protection, including a YouTube video with Cardinal George.

3. On the way to Africa, Pope Benedict defends the Church's approach to preventing AIDS (i.e., chastity in and out of marriage), stating the incredibly bloody obvious point that handing out latex and shutting up about virtue does nothing to stop the rampant promiscuity that is the cause of spreading the disease. Well, His Holiness was a little more diplomatic in how he put it.

4. Wesley Smith reveals that virtually all of the people who were victims of assisted suicide in Oregon were actually in hospice care at the time, and none of them were referred for mental health counseling to prevent suicide. Once again, proof that evil cannot exist on its own, but can only exist by corrupting something good.

5. Our bishops are starting to be more open about the immorality of "reproductive technology". Here's Bishop Wenski of Orlando, FL.

6. Same-sex "marriage" legislation moves forward in Maine and Vermont. In Connecticut, however, the assisted suicide bill is withdrawn.

7. The Vatican is going to launch its Chinese language website. I have two problems with this. One, could they please fix the awful English website? It's absurdly difficult to navigate and find anything. Second, when do they launch the Esperanto website?