Showing posts with label Catholicism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Catholicism. Show all posts

Since when do they teach Catholicism in a class that says that's exactly what they do?



Turns out the comparative religion crowd is long on diversity and short on basic reading skills:

At the end of a Wednesday evening class last semester, one of my students
approached me to ask a question. After hesitating somewhat, he proceeded in the
following manner: “Professor, I really have enjoyed your class, but you always
teach as though Catholicism is true. You rarely talk about other

Vatican Shocker: New pope is old, Catholic





Okay, so I've been on the road and without Internet for a few days, and haven't been able to comment on the election of the new pope by the College of Cardinals.

I will have to say that the best two hours of comedy I have heard in years I experienced while driving to South Carolina last Wednesday, when the decision was announced. The secular commentary on the BBC was truly amusing.

You had

Habemus Vacuitatem: Do we really want Pope 2.0?





Atheist fundamentalist P. Z. Myers titled his blog post yesterday, "Who cares if the Pope retires?" to which the answer seems to be: "Almost everybody"--at least if the sheer volume of news coverage of the event is any indication of interest.

I was actually taken aback by the amount of media coverage of yesterday's announcement that the Pope was stepping down from his position as the head of
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