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Archdiocese Opposes Ice Bucket Challenge

Could fund stem cells.

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The Archdiocese of Cincinnati has warned Catholic school officials against donating to the ALS Association as part of the "ice bucket challenge" because it fears that the money could end up in research using embryonic stem cells. "It’s a well-established moral principle that a good end is not enough. The means to that ends must be morally licit," the Archdiocese said. The Archdiocese has said that instead, any money should be sent to the John Paul II Medical Research Institute in Iowa City.

Read it at Cincinnati.com

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