Caution on Turkey and the EU from the Curia: Speaking to the Italian daily La Repubblica, the President of the Pontifical Council for Culture, Cardinal Paul Poupard, said a resolution addressing the lack of religious freedom and the discrimination against Christians in Turkey is urgent before a decision can be made about accepting that country…

From The American Conservative (which is Pat Buchanan’s mag, is it not?) an article on the Purest Neocon – Christopher Hitchens. Of interest – his views on religion. Which we all know, but anyway: As both the Hari and Didcock interviews make clear, Hitchens was able to overcome his past squeamishness about American military force…

You know, every time I hear about these bishops breaking into language-based working groups as the Synod, I have to wonder if they’re sitting around on folding chairs, staring dully at a heavy-set woman with dyed-blond hair in a burnt-orange pantsuit (’cause Halloween’s coming!), wielding butcher-block paper, markers,  and a pack of color-coded dot stickers,…

Says evolution’s okay, tells bloggers to stop arguing about him A senior Roman Catholic cardinal seen as a champion of "intelligent design" against Darwin’s explanation of life has described the theory of evolution as "one of the very great works of intellectual history". Vienna Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn said he could believe both in divine creation…

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