Yep.  I can’t imagine these things popping up at a Catholic mass, but you never know.      Anyway: now this invention is getting even more attention because of a lawsuit: A holy war of sorts has broken out in the communion-wafer-dispensing space. A Minnesota marketer of communion-wafer dispensers is accusing its former president of patent…

Could the recession be our salvation? A new poll offers some intriguing insight into how our priorities have shifted: Quietly but noticeably over the past year, Americans have rejiggered their lives to elevate experiences over things. Because of the Great Recession, a recent New York Times/CBS News poll has found, nearly half of Americans said…

A Jewish writer and researcher is defending the now-venerable pope’s record on the Nazis: Growing up Jewish in Queens, I never dreamt I would be defending the man I once believed to be a Nazi sympathizer and an anti-Semite. But my work since 2002 with my wife, Meredith, and the Pave the Way Foundation has…

That would really be something to celebrate — and it just might happen. Turns out, murders are down elsewhere, too. In my corner of the world, this is nothing less than incredible: There were days upon days in New York City when not a single person was murdered in 2009. Two such stretches, in February…

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