Religion

. . . you gotta admire it: > Father Giuseppe Mazzotta, parish priest at Marcellinara, near Catanzaro in Calabria, said that he had denied a Christian funeral to Maria Francesca Tallarico, who died of breast cancer at the age of 45, because she had lived with her partner but never married him. Her

> About 400 people will be in Ottawa this weekend for an international conference on getting women ordained as Catholic priests. Link [http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=22f79b7d-6bed-4697-8eaf-d06b9a6c5cdf] .

We don't keep abreast of Methodist developments, but have gay revisionist assertions that the Wesley brothers were gay been made yet? > The official conference center for the United Methodist Church's conservative Southeast Jurisdiction is hosting a four-day pro-homosexuality rally September 2-5. Lake Junaluska is located

America is great, America is warped. Often in the same phenomenon. Witness the Hollywoodization of worship: > The nondenominational Lakewood Church, the nation's largest congregation, moved into the Compaq Center, once the home of the Houston Rockets, over the weekend. After $95 million in renovations, including two waterfalls

> Kevin Davy set out from his family's neatly kept home for the nearby church about 1:30 a.m., carrying a portable radio blaring rap music in one hand and a sword in the other. > First, he took the sword and started hacking at the arms

> You may be a state trooper, you might be a young Turk, You may be the head of some big TV network, You may be rich or poor, you may be blind or lame, You may be living in another country under another name > You may be a