Pope Leo XIII's rerum novarum

What Islam needs is a pope.

The age-old ploy of justifying the commission of atrocities by one group by citing examples of atrocities committed by another must be condemned. Evil deeds remain evil deeds, and evil and evil deeds beget evil deeds. Our only hope is to stop focusing on the bad and start focusing on the good. For conflicting ideologies to learn tolerance for each other, common moral ground must be found. What ...

Contracts with Animals: Lucretius, De Rerum Natura

Modem philosophers interested in the moral status of animals frequently debate the possibility of extending justice to animals througb a theory of social contract, witb Rawl's theory usually providing the basis of discussion. Contractualism was, of course, also an interest of ancient pbilosopbers, particularly tbe Epicureans, wbo believed that "pleasure," dermed as "freedom from anxiety," was t...

Felix qui potuit rerum causas cognoscere.

As undergraduates, in my medical school, we had a grey booklet that listed the courses that we had to attend and have signed up in order to fulfil the requirements for taking our final examinations. We all went elsewhere after completing the pre-clinical course and at clinical school I found that those of us who had migrated north, alone among our new colleagues, were required to show that we h...

Status : Proposed Standard Nick Pope

This document updates RFC 3161 [RFC3161]. It allows the use of ESSCertIDv2 defined in RFC 5035 [ESSV2] to specify the hash of a signer certificate when the hash is calculated with a function other than SHA-1 [SHA1]. Table of

Papal Responses to the Holocaust: Contrast between Pope Pius XII and Pope John Paul II