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Something for Sunday Morning

> We should have a daily familiarity with death, a daily desire for death. By this kind of detachment our soul must learn to free itself from the desires of the body. It must soar above earthly lusts to a place where they cannot come near, to hold it fast.

Vatican Doesn't Hate Science?

Only among reporters wholly ignorant of the Roman Catholic Church's history with science would find this newsworthy: > A Vatican cardinal said Thursday the faithful should listen to what secular modern science has to offer, warning that religion risks turning into "fundamentalism" if it ignores scientific

Get Out the Hedge Trimmers!

> The Vatican's number two education official predicts that Pope Benedict XVI will follow a path of "evangelical pruning" of secularized Catholic colleges and universities, declaring them no longer Catholic. > Archbishop Michael Miller, secretary of the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education and former president of

Bible in the Political Belt

Jennifer Moses at WaPo tries to make sense of the role of religion in contemporary political life [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/02/AR2005110203188.html] . Based on this piece, she has a few hopelessly cliched and wrongheaded ideas about religion (e.g., "religion incites

Ten Catholic Changes at Supreme Court

A reader sends this along. It's already hit quite a few blogs, but I'm cutting-and-pasting it, in case any of my readers haven't seen it yet: > As David Bernstein points out today in this post on The Volokh Conspiracy, the confirmation

Freaky Romania

> Pilgrims are flocking to the flat of a Romanian family who claim the images of Jesus and two disciples have appeared on their wardrobe. Link [http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1595498.html]. I believe in miracles, but anything from that bizarre, bizarre land makes me uncomfortable.

More Gay Catholic College Activity

Just can't seem to get enough of it: > More than 40 Catholic colleges were represented on Saturday at a conference that was billed as the nation's first on how gays and lesbians fit in at universities guided by a faith that says their sexual orientation

NYT on the C5

> A Catholic majority on the nine-member court would be a significant historical shift. Until 1988, there had been no more than two Catholic justices at once. And for most of the court's history, there was typically only a single Catholic. > "This would add a

Perhaps John Wesley Can Rest Peacefully Again

> In a pair of decisions that bolstered conservatives, the highest court of the United Methodist Church defrocked an openly lesbian minister yesterday and reinstated a pastor who had been suspended for refusing to allow a gay man to become a member of his congregation. NYT Link [http://www.nytimes.

This is Metaphysics 101

But if there is no God, all is matter because there was no non-material first cause. Maybe the pollsters didn't get into that much detail. > More Britons believe in ghosts than God, according to research. > A total of 2,012 people were polled on their