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…
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…
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…
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…
