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Equality! "This year, more women (124) than men (123) are expected to be ordained in the Church of England for the first time. An average of 267 men were ordained each of the three years before the church began ordaining women, meaning that the number has fallen by half

Blessed Sin? "Dante says that at the summit of Mount Purgatory is the Earthly Paradise, the place of man's innocense. It is from here that, if man had not fallen, he would have entered upon the life of Perfection, in this world and the next. Dorothy Sayers

Book on the Pope's Death George Weigel is writing a book about the death of the Pope. LINK [http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050402005067&newsLang=en] . At first we thought, "Is it going to be one of

Something for Sunday Morning Existential anxiety is quelled by detachment, and therefore, to use Thomas Merton's words, detachment is “the number one rule of religion.” Detachment is the state of mind that does not care for the self–that master of every sinful act, appetite, and thought; that

Maybe It's the Tess Celebration Wine, But . . . The guys at Hog on Ice crack us up sometimes. They're off-color, but frequently funny. Here are one of their contributor's thoughts on bullfighting: I “ate a nutritious breakfast while watching a matador get rectally impaled about

No Limbo for Tess The Church received Therese Elizabeth Scheske this evening, about two hours after the Holy Father passed and about thirty minutes before the Blessed Statue of Fatima came through our little parish. Maybe Tess will be a nun. Eric Scheske has three daughters. To give one back

We Will Not Tolerate Your Beliefs "With a growing number of reports of pharmacists around the country refusing to fill prescriptions for birth control and emergency contraception, Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich on Friday filed a rule requiring Illinois pharmacies to accept and dispense all such prescriptions promptly." LINK

Two Jobs Don't Equal Freedom? G.K. Chesterton said the workplace would enslave women, not emancipate them: "While working men spend 6.4 hours a day at work and working women about 5 hours, the women spend about twice as much time on housework and childcare as

New Blog Did you like that rant against corporate America? Here's a blog you might want to bookmark: Hallowed Ground [http://hallowedground.blog-city.com/].

You Ain't Corporate? You Ain't Diddley. Watching the Final Four tonight? You probably won't be in the stands, unless you work for a big company. This, according to USA Today. LINK [http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/mensbasketball/tourney05/2005-03-31-final-four-tickets_x.htm] . Excerpt: "