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PAPAL GREETING
Pope Benedict XVI acknowledges the crowd during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican May 14. At the end of his audience the pope called the May 12 magnitude 7.9 earthquake in China a "devastating calamity." (CNS/Reuters)
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Science, religion not in conflict, bishops say in stem-cell document
By Nancy Frazier O'Brien
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The brief policy statement on embryonic stem-cell research that is to come before the U.S. bishops at their June 12-14 meeting in Orlando, Fla., is designed to set the stage for a later, more pastoral document explaining why the Catholic Church opposes some reproductive technologies.
"While human life is threatened in many ways in our society, the destruction of human embryos for stem-cell research confronts us with an issue of respect for life in a stark new way," says the statement drawn up by the Committee on Pro-Life Activities of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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