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What it means to be human
ROGER SCRUTON
Roger Scruton tracks down the soul the divine spark that distinguishes us from the rest of creation.

What is God's Answer to Human Suffering?
PETER KREEFT
The answer must be someone, not just something.

The Passion and Sacrifice of Being Human
POPE BENEDICT XVI
It is only by enduring himself, by freeing himself through suffering from the tyranny of egoism, that man finds himself, that he finds his truth, his joy, his happiness.

On God's 'Unrest' and Human Silence
FATHER JAMES V. SCHALL, S.J.
God has some "unrest" in His being.

Human Embryo Research After the Genome
WILLIAM P. CHESHIRE, JR.
Recently, the Bush administration planted a flag on ethical high ground by updating the charter of the federal advisory committee that addresses the safety of human research subjects to consider the welfare of human embryos along with that of fetuses, children, and adults. That decision was not, as some critics have charged, the result of inappropriate religious intrusion into policy governing science.

A Win for Science and Human Dignity
REV. RAYMOND J. DE SOUZA
As we move into the retrospective season on 2007, there will be lists aplenty about the major stories of the past year.

The Authentic Transformation of Useless Human Suffering
FATHER TADEUSZ PACHOLCZYK
Human beings naturally recoil at the prospect of pain and suffering.

Human Flourishing and the Ten Commandments
POPE BENEDICT XVI
The Ten Commandments constitutes a beacon and a norm of life in justice and love, a "great ethical code" for all humanity.

The Human Condition in Cather's "My Antonia"
MITCHELL KALPAKGIAN
Dr. Johnson remarked that a noble purpose of great literature "is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it."

Book Review: Roger Scruton's 'On Human Nature'
REV. BEN JOHNSON
On Earth Day, April 22, tens of thousands of activists held the first "March for Science" in cities around the world.

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