Book NotesI just finished Daniel L. Lewis’s exasperating God’s Crucible. Clearly a must-read for anyone interested in the history of Europe’s origins and Islam’s role in it, but it is a trial. What starts out as a fascinating narrative soon devolves into a hard slog thanks to the author’s annoying habit of infusing his own… Continue reading
I guess it’s a relief to know my church isn’t the only religion with…er, problems adhering to the Ten Commandments.
This is brutal. Amy Welborn has posted about the report on the abuse of children in the Irish Catholic Church. This footage brings it home more starkly than anything else.
Book NotesRupert Shortt reviews Ian Linden’s fascinating new book, Global Catholicism: To clear the ground, [Linden] traces the process by which the Church, once notorious for the slogan “error has no rights”, began a rapprochement with the contemporary world in the Second Vatican Council (1962–5), and recovered long-buried strands of its own tradition in the… Continue reading
I had not seen this before. Ken Miller reduces Christopher Hitchens to namecalling in place of actual argument. Good for Ken. It might be time for Hitch to take a break, head to warmer climes and drink himself shapeless. Maybe he’ll be surprised by what he finds when he wakes up.