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ODAY the European Court of Human Rights ordered the schools in Italy to remove crucifixes from the classrooms. Roman Catholic reaction (and, I’m sure, others…) has been a predictable whinge about “removing religion from the public sphere” and religious rights and what have you.
It is a huge historical irony that this should come [...]

HE ROMAN Catholic Ecclesial Community in San Francisco has paid out some $40 Million in clergy-related Sex Abuse cases. In an effort to protect some assets, they transfered some very famous property – including Mission Delores, the old cathedral (St Mary’s) and the historic but totally abandoned St Francis church in SoMa – [...]

EAR WASHINGTON, I’m not very big on competition as a way of life. Capitalism, unrestrained, seems to me as an economic system of little guys feeding themselves to bigger guys. Socialism, on the other hand, while it seems to be the grass-roots economy preferred by the Gospel, is a failure on the [...]

NE OF THE First acts of the newly created Federal Gov’t, at the end of the 18th Century, was to decide to pay off debt to businesses and wealthy land-holders incurred during the war against the British King. This they did by raising taxes on all other Americans – some of whom could ill [...]

EE HOW THEY Love one another?
OK. Follow this:
1) Tax Law prohibits a pulpit from being used to espouse partisan politics.
2) Last election cycle a group of liberal churches filed suit against a group of conservative churches for violation of this law. The suit failed.
3) This election cycle a group of conservative churches filed [...]

One Dollar. This is how much I owe my former state of residence in taxes for last year. You’d think they’d provide businesses (etc) with a better algorithm or whatever it is, for the calculation of NC tax. I also owe them 25 Dollars tax on the car. Oy. I’m [...]