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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…

Papabile notes an article about a judge in NY who’s also a permanent deacon: Westchester County Judge Charles Devlin is taking a leave of absence as deacon of a Roman Catholic church in Chappaqua to comply with Cardinal Edward Egan’s ban on deacons holding public office. Devlin, 57, has been a permanent deacon at the…

NYTimes roundup of Katrina Judgment Scenarios

I don’t quite get this, but I guess it’s funny? Via Southern Appeal

Most of you who are interested surely already know this, but good places to follow the Roberts hearings are at SCOTUS Blog and for evaluation of the press coverage at How Appealing. And Ann Althouse, of course

The papal envoy surveys the damage From the Biloxi paper: Most of the 4,000 feet of stained glass that surrounded St. Michael’s Catholic Church is now sprinkled across this once lively casino town, splattered into small slivers and lost among mountains of rubble. News reports and photos of a wounded coastline prompted Pope Benedict XVI…

A guy who runs a website which contains not much more than quotes from Jehovah’s Witnesses materials is being sued by the church: Legal proceedings before the Ontario Superior Court were initiated on September 8, 2005 by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania (hereinafter WTBTS), the legal corporation used by Jehovah’s Witnesses…

Speaking of Notre Dame, an interesting little tempest. If you watch college football, you know that during a broadcast, each college runs a spot touting itself. Most of them feature hi-tech labs and happy students sitting outside. The spot Notre Dame is running this year is…different. You can watch it here, and I recommend that…

Open a school southwest of South Bend Gary Bishop Dale Melczek, whose diocese includes the LaPorte County school, gave the order permission to open the school, but not to operate programs, raise money or recruit future seminarians in diocese parishes, said his spokesman, the Rev. Brian Chadwick.
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