I read an article today which I found absolutely horrifically shocking, and brought context to previous topics that bounced around LJ. When the Pope announced opposition to supplying condoms to Africans in order to combat the AIDS virus, there was widespread criticism claiming that education focusing on behavioral change would not be effective, ( Read more... )

A Cardinal has claimed in a BBC interview that secularists, atheists are "not totally human" because they don't particularly care for the transcendent meaning called "God ( Read more... )

I received an e-mail from a chum advising me to read

this

Which is an article on Kathleen Sebelius, the Catholic Democrat Governor of Kansas, and the withdrawal of communion from her by Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann.

Now from a political perspective this seems a strange thing to do. I say strange because it effectively ties the hands of any ( Read more... )

My whole life, religion has been something I've been unsure about. Both my parents were Catholic, but my brother and I were never baptized. We never went to church- not even on Easter or Christmas. My friends and I used to joke that I could be any religion I wanted, but basically, that's true. I used to tell them I had no religon, and for a long ( Read more... )

( everyone else keeps posting cartoons. now you can learn about catholicism from alien, predator, and jesus. )

Any ideas for an icon for this community? I can't visualize what a "conversion" would look like... maybe some kind of lightbulb-like picture?