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How
Cloning Works
Step 1— ENUCLEATION: The genetic material (DNA) of the recipient
human egg is removed through a process called enucleation.
Step 2 – SOMATIC CELL TRANSFER: A human
somatic cell of the donor (person to be cloned) is injected into the enucleated
egg. In this way, the recipient human egg now has the complete DNA of the
donor (person to be cloned).
Step 3 - CELL FUSION: An electrical pulse is applied across the two
cells causing them to fuse.
THE RESULT: An asexually reproduced HUMAN EMBRYO that is an identical
twin to the person seeking to be cloned.This is cloning as we know it today.
This process was used to
produce Dolly the sheep.
In Therapeutic Cloning, a cloned human embryo is used for spare partts
and is killed. In Reproductive Cloning, the cloned embryo is allowed
to be born.
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Dogma And Preaching: Applying Christian Doctrine to
Daily Life (2nd Ed)
by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
This volume is an unabridged edition of Dogma and Preaching, a work that appeared in a much-reduced form in English, in 1985. The new book contains twice as much material as first
English edition. "Dogma", for many people, is a bad word. For the well-informed believer, it shouldn't be. Dogmas are truths revealed by God, which should enlighten the minds,
guide the choices, and gladden the hearts of Jesus' disciples, including pastors, deacons, and lay teachers. But, as Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), notes in the foreword
to this book, "The path from dogma to proclamation or preaching has become very troublesome." Finding ways to relate the content of the Church's dogmas to everyday life can be
challenging for today's preachers and teachers. Some people find the task so daunting that they leave dogma out. As a result, they wind up presenting something other than the
Church's faith and speak in their own name, offering perhaps unwittingly merely their own, subjective ideas, rather than the Word of God. In Dogma and Preaching, the theologian
and priest Joseph Ratzinger provides (1) a theory of preaching for today; (2) application of this theory to some themes for preaching drawn from the Church's dogmas; (3) meditations
and sermons based on the liturgical year and the communion of saints; and (4) some thoughts regarding the decade after the Second Vatican and Christianity's seeming irrelevance.
Ratzinger insists that sound preaching should rest on three pillars... Read more!
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