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  • Vatican advisers meet to consider future of limbo

    This was mentioned on Gerry Ryan yesterday morning, where he asked the obvious question – what on earth happens all those people in limbo? Where do they go now. Sinead has also brought the subject up. Yes the Catholic Church is an easy thing to take the piss out of on occassions such as this.…

  • Kansas school board redefines science

    More on science and religion, the Kansas Board of Education has approved new public school science standards yesterday that cast doubt on the theory of evolution. Notes CNN: The challenged concepts cited include the basic Darwinian theory that all life had a common origin and the theory that natural chemical processes created the building blocks…

  • Evolution in the bible, says Vatican

    I think the phrase here is ‘flip-flop‘: Cardinal Paul Poupard, head of the Pontifical Council for Culture, said the Genesis description of how God created the universe and Darwin’s theory of evolution were “perfectly compatible” if the Bible were read correctly. His statement was a clear attack on creationist campaigners in the US, who see…

  • The Mater Hospital and cancer drugs

    Twenty Major highlighted something I have been meaning to write about. That is the rather odd (crazy?) decision of the Mater Hospital. I will try and tell the story in brief for those of you who have not read about it. Brian Conlan, Chief Executive of the Mater hospital, along with the clinical trials advisory…

  • Life is a cup of tea

    I have been vaguely following the Intelligent Design court case in the US. It should be noted that in 1987 the Supreme Court ruled that teaching creationism in public-school science classes was an unconstitutional blurring of church and state. But the current issue centers on this: Last year, the school board in Dover, a small…

  • George Bush: God Made Me Do It. . .

    I know that some people on the right in America forget that Bush is a fundamentalist Christian, and some even argue that having a devout Christian in the White House is a good thing. I have my doubts. Especially when you are waste high in Islamic countries. But the White House has denied he ever…

  • Church attendance

    Here’s an interesting graph from this month’s Foreign Policy. It show church attendance as a percentage of the population attending church at least once a week. As you can see Ireland is way out in front. Do that many Irish people still go to Mass? I really didn’t think the figures were still that high.…

  • Bush and Evolution

    Kevin Drum is reminding some of those on the right about Bush’s views on evolution and creationism – apparently some of them forgot. Actually, what bugged me most about this whole affair was reading the faux outrage from Bush’s conservative supporters in the blogosphere, as if they had no idea he felt this way before…

  • Ronan Mullen on Islam

    I really don’t know what to make of Ronan Mullen’s remarks today. Has anyone any thoughts on this? We have grounds for humility. It took Western Christianity centuries to arrive at the insight that human dignity called for freedom of religion, equal opportunities between the sexes and so on. But Islam’s problem is that it’s…