Pope Francis excommunicates Mafia members
June 21, 2014
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Pope Francis declared today that mobsters are “not with God,” and are excommunicated from the Catholic Church. From CNN:
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How not to teach conflict resolution
June 21, 2014
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Tom Ehrich watches the conflict going on at the Episcopal Divinity School and observes that this is no way to teach seminarians how to manage conflict.
Mentioning religion on a resume may hurt your job prospects
June 21, 2014
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Your resume is not the place to let your light shine when it comes to religion, unless you happen to be Jewish, according to a
Village aims to hire a gregarious hermit
June 21, 2014
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Seems that every job requires people skills these days. Even being a hermit ain’t what it used to be. From the Wall Street Journal:
After close vote, Presbyterians will divest from 3 companies with ties to occupation
June 20, 2014
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Laurie Goodstein in The New York Times:
50 million people are displaced around the world
June 20, 2014
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The UNHCR says that more 50 million people are displaced around the world, the highest proportion of the world’s population since World War II.
Episcopal diocese of Fort Worth petitions the Supreme Court
June 20, 2014
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The Episcopal Church and loyal Episcopal parties and congregations of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth filed a petition for writ of certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday.
The fading “defense of (traditional) marriage” movement
June 20, 2014
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Many of the people who turned out for the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) second annual “March For Marriage” rally yesterday in front of the U.S. Capitol rally cited religious reasons for their presence.
First female archbishop installed in Sweden
June 20, 2014
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The new archbishop of the Church of Sweden, Antje Jackelén, was installed at the Cathedral in Uppsala last Sunday.
Friends don’t let friends read Rand
June 19, 2014
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Based on the perhaps mistaken assumption that some of our readers will care what Flannery O’Connor, whose Catholicism deeply influenced her writing, thought of Ayn
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