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Asylum for spousal abuse victim

The 21st Century, as I've read these last few days, is said to be "the century we face up to the abuse of women" or "the century of the...

Gay and Catholic an oxymoron?

Andrew Sullivan at The Daily Dish has a disturbing post about the aftermath of the Maine decision to repeal a law allowing gay marriage: "After Maine...

Take down the cross…

That can be sung to the same tune as "Lift high the cross," but the meaning is considerably different. It's the song many public schools in Italy...

What to make of relics?

Here's an article that interesting both for its subject, relics, and its location, slate.com. The article itself is interesting, cleverly explaining both...

Global cooling? Not so much

Rising sea levels, melting arctic ice, the northwest passage open for shipping for the first time in recorded history, and violent storms and deadly...