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Hot on the heels of the Madoff scandal comes this story about a businessman who allegedly bilked investors out of millions using a similar scheme — and who specifically targeted Catholics: An 82-year-old businessman was charged Thursday with running a Ponzi scheme that took in at least $17 million from a clientele gleaned largely through…

Oops. The inventor of the pill — or, rather, The Pill — now says his famous creation was a mistake: Eighty-five-year-old Carl Djerassi the Austrian chemist who helped invent the contraceptive pill, now says that his co-creation has led to a “demographic catastrophe.” In an article published by the Vatican this week, the head of…

Those were the words in the subject line of an e-mail just sent to me by The Anchoress. Fr. Richard John Neuhaus died early this morning from cancer. He was 72. Over at First Things, there is this poignant note: My tears are not for him—for he knew, all his life, that his Redeemer lives,…

I’m not sure if atheists have a bandwagon, but they do have some buses. Ads for atheism are suddenly cropping up on public transportation. From the New York Times: The advertisement on the bus was fairly mild, just a passage from the Bible and the address of a Christian Web site. But when Ariane Sherine,…
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