While we wait the Supreme Court’s verdicts on health care and immigration, let us ponder other questions. Such as:
Should gay Mormons marry women? Some say it’s an option. Others, not so much.
An Islamist from the Muslim Brotherhood has won Egypt’s first free presidential election, but Mohamed Morsi will have his work cut out for him after decades of authoritarian rule, and with an assertive military.
Can Fox fix what ails Vatican? The Holy See is hiring Fox News’s man in Rome, Greg Burke, to help with media relations. Oh, and he is a member of Opus Dei.
This move, a week after Pope Benedict’s No. 2, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone Silvio Berlusconi (see comments), accused the media of trying "to imitate Dan Brown" in their coverage of the VatiLeaks scandal. (It was the work of the Devil, Bertone said. Same thing, no?)
Greg is a real pro, good man. But good luck, dude. You’ll need it.
Our own man in the Vatican separates fact from fiction in the leaks scandal.
The pope met with several of his cardinal over the weekend to “restore serenity and trust” in the Curia. He will continue to try to get on top of the crisis, says Edward Pentin.
Monsignor William Lynn was convicted in the landmark verdict in the Philadelphia clergy sex abuse trial, but the vaunted archdiocese has plenty of other problems to face.
Was the trial a watershed for American Catholicism?
Did the late Jesuit and ex-congressman Robert Drinan grope a 19-year-old woman who grew up to be Slate’s advice columnist?
Closing the SCOTUS loop: 50 years ago today the high court said prayer in public school was unconstitutional. Omens?
Finally, Lonesome George (pictured above) is dead after a long and apparently celibate life. He was the last of his kind. RIP.
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