It’s like the fresh young priest preaching about the joys of marriage, on which one of two ladies, veterans of the married state, observed on the way out of mass that she wished she knew “as little about marriage as that young man.”

After the San Bernardino massacre, The Angelus, the Los Angeles archdiocesan newspaper, carried an article calling for “greater solidarity with Islam.”

The piece by Fr. Ronald Rolheiser [who is widely syndicated] is a particularly egregious example of the kind of nonsense about Islam that passes for wisdom in some ecclesiastical circles. He starts off by observing that “this is …

Source: Solidarity with Islam? – Crisis Magazine

. . . jumped the shark two short years ago.

Nothing besides a national policy shift on how we create and consume energy will keep our mountains white.

Well, how about waiting a couple years?

Source: The End of Snow? – The New York Times

My question is, Does Vatican have centrifuges? (To go with its subterfuges, its enemies would say)

At one level, the close ties between Rome and Tehran reflect the often under-appreciated fact that both the Vatican and post-revolutionary Iran are basically theocracies, representing spiritual traditions — Catholicism and Shia Islam — that have a surprising amount in common.

Also, which has the bigger police force?

Source: The bond between the Vatican and Iran is a partnership destined to endure | Crux