Religion

> Sports, balls, festivities, display, the drama . . . The evil lies not in doing the thing, but in caring for it. St. Francis de Sales

I assume many readers have seen this, but just in case, I feel compelled to post the conclusion to the story since I covered it earlier: > The Vatican will allow gay men into the priesthood if they can show they have been celibate for at least three years, a

Add a little bit of repentance, and you'd have a twisted form of Catholicism: > The First Assembly of God Church has a Fear Factor ministry that lets youths swallow live goldfish in order to teach them about fear. > "We need to be realistic about what

When someone with Sinead's intellectual rigor speaks, we better listen: > Irish singer Sinead O'Connor has slammed "blasphemous" priests who attack homosexuality, as their principles contradict their faith - which is based on loving and respecting others. . . > "The teaching against homosexuality is blasphemy.

A former Catholic writes about taking revenge on "Brother Leopold," a man who beat him once in a monastery school. It's a twisted story, uncorroborated, and possibly meant to defame the Church, but it's too odd not to mention. PG-13 Link [http://www.

The cemetery branch of the military isn't ready to put the Wiccan symbols on grave markers (a free service for deceased veterans). I'm guessing they will shortly. And in a few years, we'll have requests from hedonists (alright, "Epicurians") to put genitals

I was going to make-up some mock quotes from this group, but it's pretty much impossible to parody them. > The international dissident movement "We Are Church" is issuing an appeal to the Catholic bishops, gathered in Rome for the Synod, to confront the "