De-Fund Moloch

1. Orange County, California, comes to its senses and de-funds the Temple of Moloch, er, I mean Planned Parenthood. Even better, members of the Board specifically cited their abortion practice as the reason.

2. Utilitarianism taken to the monstrous level. Now a stem cell expert in the UK is calling for the use of organs from aborted babies to be used for transplants. Just think of the new profit opportunities for the Temple of Moloch, er, I mean Planned Parenthood.

3. More lunacy from the UK. A supposedly Catholic college in Birmingham is holding an event -- in the chapel, no less -- to honor the birth of Mohammed.

4. Don't mean to beat up too much on Europe today, but the European Union is considering a bill that would permit atheists to sue religious organizations if they're offended by some public religious display (like a cross on a hospital wall?). Oh, it's okay, all they really want is tolerance, right?

5. Not coincidentally, Cardinal Pell of Sydney was in the UK to warn of the totalitarianism of secularism (sorry, that's quite a mouthful to say). And not coincidentally, secularism is on the rise in America, and may be accelerating under the new Administration.

6. Excellent editorial from Our Sunday Visitor on the stem cell decision. It completely skewers the patently false claim by the President and his supporters that this has anything to do with "scientific integrity". It's all about ethics-free science.

7. The unspeakable Speaker of the House, however, despite the specific and pointed admonition from the Holy Father, continues down the path to destruction. She was gushing the other day about what a "great honor" it was, for her to be present at the announcement of the President's decision to fund the dismemberment of human beings in the embryonic stage of their development. .

8. Poor Bill Clinton. It must have been a deficiency of that Jesuit education he got at Georgetown, but he seems to think that embryos haven't been fertilized yet. The weird thing is that the interviewer -- a CNN reporter who is also a brain surgeon and was originally nominated by the current President to be Surgeon General -- didn't stop and correct him, even though he repeated the error five times. Yes, science has now triumphed over politics. There's the proof, right?

9. News flash -- the Times accepts papal infallibility. Well, only in the headline, but it's a start.