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Vatican Silent on Agca

Probably the appropriate response [http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=41708]: > The Vatican is accepting the decision of a Turkish court to free Mehmet Ali Agca. The would-be assassin of Pope John Paul II will be released on parole on January 12. > Questioned on January 9

Gay Louisiana Priest

> Deciding he had to practice the honesty he preached, a popular priest has told his family, his bishop and the people in his parish that he is gay. > The Rev. Jim Morrison said he had been working since October on the letter which he sent early this month

Increasing Brand Loyalty or Intolerance?

Wheaton fires a professor of medieval philosophy because he became Catholic. Catholics are trying to hire more Catholic professors. Is this a renewal of hostilities that have thawed over the past 20 years, or just intitutions being loyal to their religious roots? I'm thinking the latter, and I

Something for Sunday Morning

Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, by St. Gregory Nazianzen: > "Christ is bathed in light; let us also be bathed in light. Christ is baptised; let us also go down with him, and rise with him. > John is baptising when Jesus draws near. Perhaps he comes

Book of Daniel

I just figured NBC's Book of Daniel was offensive to all Christians, but apparently not. The Episcopalians are so happy about it that they've started their own blog (The Book of Daniel Blog [http://blog.edow.org/weblog/]) to defend it and respond to (attack) traditional

Epiphany

THE FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY THE WISE MEN, by G.K. Chesterton STEP softly, under snow or rain, To find the place where men can pray; The way is all so very plain, That we may lose the way. Oh, we have learnt to peer and pore On tortured puzzles

Keating Asks Questions

In his most recent e-letter, Karl Keating asks a few tough questions about the Vatican's instruction regarding the ordination of homosexuals. Excerpt: > The recent instruction regarding the ordination of homosexuals took, by various accounts, anywhere from five to eight years to write. I realize that things move

Standing Up Against Secular Mores

St. Thomas University in St. Paul, Minnesota, told a co-habitating couple that they couldn't co-habitate during a student trip to Australia. The sulking couple refused to go at all. Now there's a campus debate raging. I'm more interested in the legality, which some questioned.

Abusing Popular Credulity

Another good link [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1967413,00.html] from Welborn [http://amywelborn.typepad.com/openbook/2006/01/god_in_the_dock.html]: > An Italian judge has ordered a priest to appear in court this month to prove that Jesus Christ existed. > The case

Literature and Limbo

Harold Bloom at NYT laments the pending doom of Limbo [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/01/opinion/01bloom.html?th&emc=th]: > Limbo has a rich literary history, in honor of which I hope the pope and his International Theological Commission will refrain from exiling this amiably