Religion

> The Dalai Lama has admitted mosquitoes drive him crazy because his Buddhist faith rules he cannot kill them. > Even when the insects bite him, he is supposed to stay calm and just shoo them away instead. > Buddhists are not allowed to kill, but the Tibetan spiritual leader

. . . Catholics are turning their back on their 150-year-old education tradition: > This week, the Presbyterian Church in America voted to receive a personal resolution encouraging Christian parents to remove their children from the public schools and see to it that they receive a thoroughly Christian education. Link [http:

> As the nation's Roman Catholic bishops gathered in Chicago Thursday for a meeting to review their sexual abuse policy, Cardinal Francis George said homosexual men should not be admitted into seminaries. > George, who is archbishop of Chicago and vice president of the U.S. Conference of

Former California governor Jerry Brown married yesterday. That's surprising, but it doesn't cause Hell to freeze over. The freezing comes in this paragraph: > The couple were serenaded by Gregorian and Cistercian chants, a nod to Jerry Brown's days as a Jesuit scholar. Brown,

From Dracula [http://www.donlinke.com/drakula/vlad.htm] to this, those Romanians have some freaky spiritual stuff: > A Romanian nun has died after being bound to a cross, gagged and left alone for three days in a cold room in a convent, Romanian police have said. > Members

Passion can be understood in many ways, even Christians have applied the term differently. In its theologically-negative sense, it connotes a desire that cuts-off the individual from God, that inordinately serves the self, including its body and its worldly appetites. It is the bridge from sinful thought to

We dislike covering what everyone else is covering, and we dislike celebrity gossip, but the Cruise-Holmes thing (Scientology v. Catholicsm, with the Hubbardites winning) is interesting. Not all girls are as awe-struck around Cruise as Katie. We found this at Radar Online [http://www.radaronline.com/fresh-intelligence/

Interesting piece about the renewed interest in Mary. Even more interesting because it's from the LA Times: > Last month, the renewed interest in Mary became the subject an "agreed statement" by the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission – a panel of bishops and theologians who try

> The archbishop of Madrid and other senior Roman Catholics plan to attend a rally protesting a bill to legalize gay marriage, church officials said Thursday -- their first display of anti-government activism in more than 20 years. Link [http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/06/17/special_reports/religion/

> CBS television has given producers the go-ahead for a big-budget miniseries charting the life of the late Pope John Paul II, with guidance from the Vatican, the network said Thursday. > The four-hour, fact-based drama, tentatively titled “Pope John Paul II,” will chronicle the story