I’m still struggling with hypocrisy of the religious right equating “moral values” to litmus tests of being against gay marriage and abortion. A friend today reminded me of certain verses from Chapter 25 of the Gospel according to Matthew. In the language of the New American Bible from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, here […]
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It claims to be official but…. The errors or omissions paragraph is the clincher. Interestingly, Google indicates there’s a number of such faqs. This one may be hard to beat, though. Two stories appearing next to each other in this morning’s Argus made me wonder: Is it any wonder Iran, North Korea, etc., think they need to develop nuclear weapons or that we have no credibility when it comes to these issues? At the top of page 3 was an Associated Press article that “the United […] I just finished Karen Armstrong’s memoir, The Spiral Staircase. (By coincidence, the book section in today’s Guardian has an excellent biographical piece about her. And Powell’s has an interview here.) Armstrong is a British woman who left the convent after seven years and the book details her struggles in coming to terms with a society […] |
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