“The rest of life would benefit enormously” from the extinction of mankind, and Christianity is “the most dangerous of devotions,” according to E. O Wilson He has has been invited to be a commencement speaker at De Paul University in the US. Read More
Hindus have welcomed Vatican’s changed stance on American Roman Catholic nuns, calling it a “step in the right direction”. Meeting with the final group of US Bishops on their ad limina Vatican visits, Pope reportedly said: “I wish to reaffirm my deep gratitude for the example of fidelity and self-sacrifice given by many consecrated women Read more
Six Buddhist monks have been forced to resign in South Korea after they were filmed on camera drinking, smoking and playing a high stakes game of poker. The video – recorded by a hidden camera in a hotel room in Jangseong – shows the men gambling and carousing before a memorial service for a dead Read more
Single, mobile New Zealand blokes take note: the shortage of Mr Rights in Australia is so bad that women are being urged by a priest in Melbourne to grab and keep hold of any they can find. Father Tony Kerin, episcopal vicar for justice and social service in the Archdiocese of Melbourne, told the Herald Read more
A Kiwi woman who once dated the British Prime Minister and was a socialite before joining a convent is a happy, ‘naughty nun’, says a long-time friend. Laura Adshead attended St Margaret’s College in Christchurch before moving to the UK where she went to Cheltenham Ladies’ College and Oxford University, the Daily Mail reported. Continue Read more
A New Plymouth evangelist who had an illegal stash of loaded pistols in his bedroom admitted to police he used a false name to post himself gun parts from Texas, concealed in packages containing religious books and clothes. Self-described retired evangelist Rodney Kyle, 63, admitted one charge of unlawfully possessing a pistol and four of Read more
Nearly 15 per cent of people worldwide believe the world will end during their lifetime and 10 per cent think the Mayan calendar could signify it will happen in 2012, according to a new poll. The end of the Mayan calendar, which spans about 5125 years, on December 21 2012, has sparked interpretations and suggestions Read more
Catholics should pray that Wales will lose as if the Pope’s life depended on it because, it seems, it does. In 2008, two Welsh doctors discovered that going back to 1883, five Roman Catholic Popes had died whenever Wales rugby won the Grand Slam. Wales won the Grand Slam again this year. And a Pope dropped dead. Now, obviously Read more
Would you take an egg in the face for Jesus? A group of Auckland University students lined up on Easter weekend to be egged in the name of religious education. Christian group Student Life Auckland held the ‘Egg a Christian’ event at the university quad, in the hope that students would come down to chuck Read more
The steam holes of a working iron were re machined to mirror the iconic aura of the Virgin of Guadalupe. When cloth is scorched by the iron an image of the Virgin appears in the burn. The text on the T-shirts (everything is coming up roses) accompanies the burns and refers to the Virgin of Read more