Back in 1987 then-Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona unilaterally canceled the state holiday meant to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later the state’s citizens voted down a referendum establishing an MLK Jr. holiday. As a result, the state faced an economic boycott, culminating in the National Football League removing its previously-scheduled Super Bowl …
After his selection as Pope we quickly learned that Benedict XVI had been a member of the Wehrmacht as a teenager. That was put aside by most as an artifact of history; in 1944-1945 there weren’t very many 16-18 year-old kids in Germany able to escape military service in the Nazi Army. Newly-selected Francis I, …
15 Questions about world religions. I got all of them correct, but I admit that I got one wrong when it was quoted on network news the other night, so I knew better when I actually took the test this morning.
Even if President Obama were a Muslim rather than the Christian he is, why should we care? Yeah, yeah, Kennedy was the first and so-far-only Catholic President, we’ve never had a Jewish President, blah blah blah. Lookit. With the recent confirmation of Elena Kagan as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, that body now …