We’ll no doubt see much discussion of this forthcoming book: Jesus in the Talmud. From Publishers’ Weekly: Will Peter Schaefer’s new book, Jesus in the Talmud (Mar.), be controversial? "I’m afraid so," Schaefer told RBL. "That’s why I’m nervous." His editor at Princeton University Press, Brigitta van Rheinberg, laughed but agreed: "You think, oh, whoa,…

Via Gerald: An abortion clinic has opened in a mall in Vienna. A bishop responds: Salzburg’s outspoken auxiliary Bishop Andreas Laun said that the owner of the Viennese mall in which an abortion clinic just opened its doors was excommunicated due to his formal cooperation. This made headlines in Austrian newspapers and on tv. A…

John Thavis of CNS on the pope’s ad-libbing…and the official versions. Rarely is a general audience talk interrupted by spontaneous applause, and Pope Benedict XVI seemed as surprised as anyone when the clapping began in the Vatican’s audience hall. The pope had been talking about the church’s early times, and he set aside his text…

Dave Andrusko at NRLC speaks to one of the researchers interviewed by Emily Bazelon, the author of the piece on post-abortion syndrome. I recently spoke with Dr. Priscilla Coleman who was interviewed by Ms Bazelon and briefly mentioned in the article. Dr. Coleman was disturbed by what she considers "out-right misrepresentation of the science by…

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