Tag: Assorted links

NYT editorial on the Vatican; Received in the church via Skype; Opposing views on Tucson; Mary falls out of favor; Cain says Jesus was “The Perfect Conservative.”

A list of lists celebrating/bemoaning/lambasting/lamenting the year and the decade. Some deal with the Café’s usual concerns; some don’t. But they all share the common trait of looking over one’s shoulder at a significant moment on the calendar before one looks ahead.

IHOP v. IHOP, Polygamy and drinking, Tea Party astro-turfed, New Humanist takes on L. Ron Hubbard, biggest return to education starts at birth.

Reasons for the acceptance of gays in the UK military, African poverty is falling, mortality/wealth progress, a new reason to give in secret, endowed professorship in theology and the environment, General Seminary in the news, Young Adult Service Corp applications.

Really? Christian video games? Well, yes – or at least games that borrow the nomenclature.

1. Marriage is down because of the recession? Not. 2. Gays more likely to have multiple partners? Guess again. (Plus other interesting comparisons.)

1. Simon Sarmiento reflects on the Papal visit. 2. Should they have let the guy’s house burn down? (It seems he’d regularly paid in the

1. Holy roller burns Bible. 2. In 2004, the top twenty-five hedge fund managers combined appear to have earned more than all of the CEOs

A globetrot from Freetown to Osaka to Jerusalem to the virtual house of worship and elsewhere. All your catholic tastes could desire.