Magister on the new Cuban ambassador to the Vatican. The Archbishop of Havana is not pleased. Roa Kourí, 69, is a prominent figure in the Cuban "nomenklatura." He is the son of one of the intellectuals closest to Castro during the revolution, Raúl Roa Garcia. He was an extremely close friend of Ernesto Che Guevara,…

Via Hugh Hewitt, a new web portal called Relief Connections: Please visit and bookmark ReliefConnections.org, and if you are blogger, please tell your audiences about it and perhaps even put a button somewhere on your site. ReliefConnections.org is NZ Bear’s new portal designed to match the needy with the willing and to do so with…

I saw penguins at the zoo the other day. I haven’t however, seen March of the Penguins  – I really am not too interested, and what I’ve heard (correct me) indicates that it’s rather anthropomorphized in its presentation. (although that aspect is toned down from the French version) Today the NYTimes notes the embrace of…

Get Religion has two good posts (okay, lots of good posts, but the two most recent are timely), the first about Palestinians burning synagogues in Gaza and the second. along with 40 comments or so, about a Columbia Journalism Review piece which maintains, in essence, that those who critique evolutionary theory don’t deserve "fair" coverage…or…

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