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Körperliche Aktivität wirkt laut einer Studie der Ruhr Universität Bochum zweifach bei Depressionen: Es mindert die Symptomatik und steigert...

Story by | Genevieve Soh (she/her/hers), Staff Editor This article was written in collaboration with our partners, Panoramic. It is a global magazine, run by students at the University of Cambridge, to provide a space for young people across the world to discuss prominent topics we face as a generation. “Neither [murderous action] is permissible as your primary intention. The Doctrine of Double Effect, remember?” urges Chidi, a professor of Moral Philosophy. “Well, man, I’m working with...

&rel=5&autoplay=2 Would you buy a gun that decided when it was okay for you to pull the trigger? Three researchers in New York say the technology is workable, but on today’s Bearing Arms’ Cam & Co we take a closer look at their idea and some of the inherent issues that come with incorporating artificial intelligence into a firearm. You can read the research paper produced by the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Selmer Bringsjord, Naveen Sundar Govindarajulu, and Michael Giancola in its...

A group of Argentine bishops (ABs) recently published pastoral guidelines for implementing Chapter 8 of Amoris Laetitia (AL). The ABs tell their clergy that under certain circumstances divorced Catholics in sexually active second unions may receive the Holy Eucharist, even without receiving an annulment. The ABs sent their guidelines to Pope Francis to ask whether their pastoral approach was consistent with the meaning of AL. Pope Francis replied in a letter on papal stationary saying t...

Regarding the use of vaccines developed using cells from aborted human persons By On 21 December 2020, Reuters reported on a document issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith announcing that the Vatican had signed off on the use of vaccines “even if their production employed cell lines drawn from tissues of aborted fetuses.”[1] Though the CDF document stresses that it strongly desires the use of “ethically acceptable” vaccines, the document also emphasizes that the common ...