Some of the news that is fit to print

Why am I a recovering Catholic?

Even beyond the fact that I am gay and the Pope ain't to fond of The Gay... there was this story:

Pope Criticizes Harry Potter [London Times, 7.13.2005]
Pope Benedict XVI has condemned the Harry Potter books as "subtle seductions," capable of corrupting young Christians, in two letters which have now been published online.

And apparently the Church isn't a big fan of the DaVinci Code either.

All of this, of course, comes after the church is reexaming its postion on evolution, of all things.

Somehow I'm become more and more anti-religion these days, and the amazing thing is that it isn't my fault!

Another step back

This from Slate.com's Today's Papers this morning

In a fun piece of meta-reporting, the NYT fronts news about an op-ed it ran itself two days prior in which a leading cardinal suggested that modern evolutionary theory is incompatible with Catholicism. The op-ed is significant because the Catholic Church has long been thought to have accepted evolution. But this cardinal thinks the Church's position has been "misrepresented" and implied that Pope Benedict was sympathetic to that view.

Of course. The Catholic Church is apparently read to take a step back in its own evolution.

Andrew Sullivan, the gay, Catholic, conservative, also notes this on his blog. "So we return to the 19th centurny," he says.