Ratzinger and evolution

In the process of examining what then-Cardinal Ratzinger (now the Pope) might think about evolution, John Allen provides the following quote from Ratzinger, which can be found included in Ratzinger's book Truth and Tolerance:
No one will be able to cast serious doubt upon the scientific evidence for micro-evolutionary processes. R. Junker and S. Scherer, in [...]

Plan B; dig deeper

The controversy over the recent approval by the FDA of Plan B, an "emergency contraceptive", has taken an interesting twist. An otherwise strongly pro-life Catholic blog, Ales Rarus, has protested that Plan B is emphatically not an abortifacient (and thus not morally objectionable on that ground), despite that being exactly what the controversy is all [...]