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• Has Benedict XVI changed Church teaching on condoms?

  Sunday, November 21st, 2010

  In fact, the Pope has merely confirmed what is already well established

• Good news for every blob of cells that wants to grow into a human

  Tuesday, October 12th, 2010

  Stem-cell researchers achieve a breakthrough, while Woman’s Hour hosts a head-to-head debate on abortion

• David, I thought you were a sensible chap. What happened with child benefits?

  Friday, October 8th, 2010

  Any student of psychology could have told you how it would play out

• Proportion of Christians in England has stayed the same for 10 years

  Friday, October 1st, 2010

  We remain, by a large majority, a Christian culture

• Stephen Hawking still can’t explain how something came from nothing

  Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

  Even if physicists had a Grand Theory of Everything, they could not solve creation

• Washing your hands may affect your moral judgment

  Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

  A new study has interesting implications for how external gestures affect our state of mind

• On teenage pregnancy, the Government is in a hole. And it’s still digging

  Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

  The rise in teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases among young people shows that the Government strategy is misdirected

• Children are being confirmed too early

  Friday, August 13th, 2010

  Let’s delay the sacrament until children are 16

• We’ve learned nothing from the human genome, admits Venter

  Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

  So genetic nirvana is some way off yet