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Ashes to dishes

In the spirit of my recent post about the Catholic’s Church’s edict against keeping or spreading of the ashes of loved ones comes Justin Crowe’s Nourish dinnerware, made from the remains of over 200 people. More specifically: “Nourish is a dinnerware series designed to infuse a sense of mortality into everyday moments. It was made…

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Catholics should be able to scatter their ashes wherever they damn well please.

My wife once said that amongst the many noble reasons that I became a teacher, it was also because I don’t like to be told what to do. This has never occurred to me before, but she’s probably right. Teachers spend most of their day deciding how and when and what they will do. There…

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Another bad day for the bigots

This is the second day in a row that I write about Pope Francis, and in a fairly positive light both times. Today, it’s just one sentence, spoken yesterday by the pope and reported in the New York Times among many other places: “If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has…

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I abandoned the Catholic Church at the age of seven. Credit my Catholic mother.

Paul Elie, a senior fellow in the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs at Georgetown, suggests in the New York Times this week that Catholics (of which he is one) give up their faith as a form of protest against the recent practices of their church. Resignation: that’s what American Catholics are feeling…

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