In 2001, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, not yet Pope, sent out a letter about the child abuse to all the Bishops of the Church, telling them that a certain crime was grounds of excommunication from the Catholic Church. That was sharing evidence about child rape with the civil authorities or press.

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I've always felt that in some sense, we had no right to behave towards the South as we did in the Civil War; that in a democracy, if they wanted to secede, they had every right to. It struck me today that it would have been entirely advantageous for us to let them to, too, had we handled it right. We let them construct a cute little government, and ( Read more... )

Okay, here's my test.
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At LibraryThing, there's a list of book readings, etc., in the local area, and this is on the list:

Professor George Lakoff author of Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, Whose Freedom?, and Don't Think of an Elephant!, explores the connections between cognitive science and political action. Why do many Americans vote against ( Read more... )