What the Council says about THE CHURCH

Comparative study of Daylight Design in Safavid Mosque and Renaissance Church ase studies: Jame Abbasi Mosque in Isfahan and St. Peter Church in Rome

This study compares the Safavid Mosque and the Renaissance Church in the field of daylight design. The present study seeks to answer these questions: What methods are used to provide the light in the mosque and church, and what are the similarities and differences between the “qualities of the presence of daylight” in each of these religious buildings? To limit the scope of research, Jame Abbas...

What Catholic social teaching says to Catholic sponsors of church plans.

Reflections on Jennifer Saul's View of Successful Communication and Conversational Implicature

Saul (2002) criticizes a view on the relationship between speaker meaning and conversational implicatures according to which speaker meaning is exhaustively comprised of what is said and what is implicated. In the course of making her points, she develops a couple of new notions which she calls “utterer-implicature” and “audience-implicature”. She then makes certain claims about the relationshi...

You Only Die Twice : Augustine , Aquinas , the Council of Vienne , and Death by the Brain Criterion

• Nicholas Tonti-Filippini • " The Church holds that death can be diagnosed on the basis of evidence that shows a complete loss of brain function, but may not be diagnosed if there is still some function of the brain. " There are some who take what might be called a " two deaths view " or " mentalist view " about death. This is a view that distinguishes between death of the person and death of ...

Sifting for salt strategies from the Sodium Working Group.

It appears that Health Canada’s Sodium Working Group, which was appointed two years ago to craft a national strategy to reduce Canadian salt consumption, is bogged down with matters of process and disagreements over what, if anything, should be done to limit sodium consumption. But cochairs Hasan Hutchinson and Mary L’Abbe say they can’t comment about whether the group is in disarray because of...