With every aspect of News Corp. now being minutely dissected, Christians are asking whether buying the Bible from Rupert Murdoch is the Christian thing to do.
News Corp. owns HarperCollins, whose Christian division, Zondervan, has published some 30 million copies of Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Life and is the country’s biggest publisher of bibles Read More
“Robert M. Smith, a former Times reporter, says that two months after the burglary, over lunch at a Washington restaurant, the acting director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, L. Patrick Gray, disclosed explosive aspects of the case, including the culpability of the former attorney general, John Mitchell, and hinted at White House involvement.
“Mr. Read More
Rudolph Giuliani has repeatedly extended the hand of friendship to Christian conservatives in recent months. But a leading member of a think tank closely associated with the former Mayor has just delivered a powerful jab to the face of the same constituency.
Mr. Giuliani, long viewed with suspicion by the religious right because of his Read More
Very Italian!
So Italian that he’s going all the way to Buffalo to get in the shot with Italian Prime Minister Silvio “Jesus Christ” Berlusconi. (Think Bloomberg, only dogged by serious allegations of corruption. Maybe they’ll talk about, um, reform?)
And how Catholic? He’s so Catholic that he’s listing his Mass attendance Read More
A lot of people have a lot to say about Mel Gibson’s new movie, The Passion , and this is a little surprising, as the movie has not yet been released. Cultural critics have condemned the film, based on Gospel accounts of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, after reading news reports summarizing the details of Read More
Monday, June 15, an advertisement by the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights appeared. It was prominently placed in The New York Times at the bottom of the Op-Ed page. It had an eye-catching headline: “‘Shylock and Sambo’ Hits Broadway.” The ad was an attack on Terrence McNally’s play, Corpus Christi , scheduled to Read More
