Scientist Dr. Shinya Yamanaka halts Stem Cell War with Discovery

This story may not make mainstream media but it will be lauded here. This is an amazing ethical breakthrough and moral achievement. Shinya Yamanaka, a scientist at Kyoto University, showed how “induced pluripotent stem cells” could be derived from adult cells and substituted for embryonic stem cells. Recently this ground breaking discovery earned him a Nobel Prize, shared with British scientist John Gurdon.

Dr. Yamanaka lights the way. Thank you!

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Little Flower, The Eucharistic, & The Way of Perfection

Saint Teresa of Avila’s Feast Day – October 15

Saint Teresa of Avila lived in a time quite similar to ours, when the Christians of her own country needed to hear the message of the Gospel preached with renewed vigor.

Video about Saint Teresa of Avila

4th Woman Doctor of the Church – Hildegard of Bingen

Perhaps because of her famous (or infamous) flouting of ecclesiastical authority, Hildegard of Bingen was not canonized by the Roman Catholic Church as a saint, though she was honored locally as a saint. The Church of England considered her a saint. On May 10, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI officially declared her a saint of the Roman Catholic Church, and has announced that in October 2012, he will name her as a Doctor of the Church (meaning her teachings are recommended doctrine). She will be the fourth woman to be so honored, after Teresa of Avila, Catherine of Siena and Térèse of Lisieux.