http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080311/ap_on_re_eu/vatican_sins_5;_ylt=AstoI.W65Ue26hF8KHS44FQE1vAI In olden days, the deadly sins included lust, gluttony and greed. Now, the Catholic Church says pollution, mind-damaging drugs and genetic experiments are on its updated thou-shalt-not list. Also receiving fresh attention by the Vatican was social injustice, along the lines of the age-old maxim: “The rich get richer while the poor get poorer.” […]
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080323/wl_nm/china_tibet_dc_120;_ylt=AnuvfX4su.0AObYnhq0.5UwE1vAI China accused the Dalai Lama on Sunday of using unrest in Tibet to back demands for Tibetan independence ahead of the August Olympic Games in Beijing. China’s persecution complex plumbs new lows. I do like the unintentional irony of their accusation of “hostage-taking”. This from a country who has kept its boot firmly on […]
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070828/ap_on_go_co/craig_arrest_18;_ylt=As9nAa78qe7Nf8NLo51Ot_UE1vAI Another Republican anti-gay legislator has been exposed as having a pro-gay social life. This one’s kind of strange, though. He was arrested for “lewd conduct” in a public toilet: Roll Call, citing the report, said Sgt. Dave Karsnia made the arrest after an encounter in which he was seated in a stall next to […]
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070413/ap_on_en_ot/imus_protests_355 L’affaire Imus continues, as the American media prefers castigating easy targets to taking on the difficult ones. The double-take of the day originates in this article: On Wednesday, a week after the remark, MSNBC said it would no longer televise the show. CBS fired Imus Thursday from the radio show that he has hosted […]
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http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20060206&s=vidal Gore Vidal savages Bush, in his own highly learned way. Of course, he’s preaching to the converted – anyone who reads Gore Vidal is unlikely to be voting for Bush in the first place. This, then, is another piece to make thinking Americans or the rest of the world shake their heads in disbelief […]
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060916/ap_on_re_eu/pope_muslims_26 It seems that Pope Ratzinger is “extremely upset” that Muslims have been offended by some of his words in a recent speech in Germany. He was hoping they’d be offended by all of them. (Thank you! I’ll be here all week!)
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060915/wl_nm/religion_pope_islam_dc_6 Pope Ratzinger again shows how religion can be a unifying influence based on love and understanding: In his speech at the University of Regensburg, Benedict quoted criticism of Islam and the Prophet Mohammad by 14th century Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaeologus, who wrote that everything Mohammad brought was evil and inhuman, “such as his […]