During his off-hours William Dailey mixes cocktail behind a bar. In his day job, he is a priest and lawyer who is currently the Thomas More Fellow at Notre Dame’s Center for Ethics & Culture. He says a bar offers a similar sense of community as a church. “A bar with a good community of Read more
So the Pope says animals are going to heaven. Even though he is not a nonbeliever Clay Farris Naff finds it a charming concecpt. But he wonders if Pope Francis meant to include bacteria? Another week, another story about Pope Francis saying something a little weird and a little cool. News reports suggested that Francis Read more
Wartime Nazi Christmas decorations have sparked outrage after appearing on an online auction site. The four Christmas tree baubles, described as “fancy,” are red with the Nazi Swastika painted in the centre of a white circle. For sale on the Czech Republic website Aukro, the seller – who identifies himself as Anti95 and is from Read more
The Chapel of St Peter and St Paul at the Old Royal Naval College (ORNC), in Greenwich, UK commissioned designer Sebastian Bergne to create a Christmas crib. This crib set “makes use of our learned experience from exposure to thousands of images, toys and Christmas cards over the years,” according to Bergne. “Set in the Read more
A Houston pastor has come under fire for refusing to bury a 93-year-old woman who had been a member of his church for 50 years but did not tithe enough as her death neared. Barbara Day told KRIV that she was devastated by the way pastor Walter F. Houston treated her when she contacted him Read more
A Florida Pastor recently broke the Guinness world record for the Longest Speech Marathon by preaching a sermon that lasted 53 hours and 18 minutes from Friday to Sunday. Zach Zehnder, the 31-year-old pastor of the Cross Mount Dora in Florida set out to break the previous record of 48 hours and 31 minutes in Read more
The UN has declared the 19 November to be World Toilet day. This year Samoa has celebrated World Toilet day with great panache and a nod in the direction of the Old Testament. In the opening remarks of his spiritual message Reverend Aumua Seuga Aumua reminded everyone that even in the time of Moses, proper Read more
It doesn’t seem the best way to attract future business – a Wellington playcentre has been fundraising by auctioning a vasectomy voucher at its annual gala last weekend. Several doctors are parents at the centre, and it was GP Tim Jefferies who came up with the auction item by offering up the services of colleague Read more
Estimates vary as to the proportion of marriages in the US that end in divorce but some analysts put it as high as half, So in 2012 Glynda Rhodes launched a new company – The Divorce Party Planner – and the business has boomed ever since, a situation mirrored at similar firms in Vegas and Read more