Lightening The Burden

CBCP Monitor Vol 22 No 12

The poor can go to the street to denounce the various burdens that the government imposed on them and ask that they be scrapped unconditionally. The Gospel offers only Jesus to lighten the load: Jesus is the only one who can refresh us—not the meticulous observance of the law, not the politicians, not money, not rebellion.

He can understand the feelings of the poor, because he himself became poor, though he was rich Phil 2: He was born to a poor family, had nowhere to lay his head, and his grave was not even his own. As the parables show, he looked at realities through the eyes of the poor.

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Because he had no mission other than to do the will of his Father, he was meek and humble, like the servant of God Zech 9: For another, he is the Wisdom of God. He can invite us to take his yoke Matt Amidst problems that the nation faces, people who are supposed to be in the know—what with their trainings abroad and degrees attached to their name—are inclined to think that the Jesus way is neither easy nor light—in fact, it is impractical.

They like to depend on their own wisdom.

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The first relatively new source of stress he discussed is genetic screening prior to IVF. There is a limited panel of tests such as for cystic fibrosis mutations that multiple bodies overseeing our specialty recommend.

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However, many programs have adopted a much more extensive screening panel looking for carriers of mutations with lesser impact. The problem is that finding an abnormality adds significant stress on the couple, wondering if the husband will also be a carrier and therefore giving a chance the offspring could have the disease, having to decide whether relatives should be tested and on and on.

We and many other programs are not convinced and recommend only the panel advised by supervising organizations. The second source of stress he discussed is when a genetic laboratory uses newer, more sophisticated techniques to call an embryo biopsy mosaic containing both normal and abnormal cells rather than simply normal or abnormal.

Other studies have shown there is major self-correction that occurs, with the abnormal cells falling behind and mainly relegated to the placenta.

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Histories of the empire - this book included - have a wonderful capacity to confound expectations. Gandhi may have caused the authorities all sorts of bother in South Africa and India, but his loyalty could not be questioned when war broke out in Ferguson shows how the English were relative laggards as empire builders, with the Spanish and Dutch making the early running.

The empire took root haphazardly in the 16th century as buccaneers began raiding foreign supplies of gold and other treasure. It grew not from a central plan hatched in London, but from commercial interests and the vast ambitions of such pioneers as Sir Walter Ralegh and Cecil Rhodes, for which coastal bases and spheres of interest had to be established. Perhaps because he did not wish to alarm the producers of the Channel 4 series that accompanies this book, Ferguson has not produced a polemical defence of empire, but his sympathies are obvious.

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A revealing statistic will puncture the empire sceptic's case: Indian life expectancy rose from 21 to 32 years during British rule, and by the end of the Raj, a quarter of all land was irrigated, compared with just five per cent under the Mughals. Those who might argue that colonialism held back African development are reminded that in , real per capita GDP in Britain was seven times what it was in Zambia; today it is 28 times greater.

Australians might resent the sort of colonial attitude that marked their country out as a dumping ground for convicts, but deportation lost its bite as a penal measure when word filtered back about the opportunities in the Antipodes. By the s, only one in 14 of the British and Irish convicts who had served their prison terms in Australia opted to go back home.