So, what’s Pope Benedict up to?
Chiesa.org
The last great reform of the Vatican curia was made by Pope Paul VI in the fifth year of his pontificate. Pope Benedict XVI is in his third year, but there’s nothing to indicate that he is preparing anything similar. The few appointments made in the curia so far by Pope Benedict, interpreted by almost everyone as the preannouncement of a systemic revolution, have remained what they were: few and isolated.

Keeping your chimera
London Telegraph
Under draft Government legislation to be debated by Parliament later this year, scientists will be given permission for the first time to create hybrid embryos for research as long as they destroy them within two weeks. But the Catholic bishops of England and Wales, in a submission to the Parliamentary joint committee scrutinizing the draft legislation, said that the genetic mothers of “chimeras” should be able to raise them as their own children if they wished. The bishops said that they did not see why these “interspecies” embryos should be treated any differently than others.