Rotundus.com

I was both surprised and unsurprised to discover this article:

Unemployed, non-religious educators are turning to Catholicism in an attempt to secure a coveted teaching position, even it means lying in confession about whether they've had pre-marital sex, some have revealed.

“I don't particularly like going (to mass) every Sunday, but if this is what I have to do, then I'll do it,” said a Toronto-area woman, who didn't want to be identified. “I just really want to be in a career. I just want it so badly.” The teacher said she has also been going to confession regularly and speaking with a priest on a weekly basis in order to receive the documents she needs to apply to the Toronto Catholic District School Board.

She is not Catholic. In fact, she doesn't consider herself religious.

The oversupply of qualified, unemployed teachers in Ontario has been a well-documented problem. According to the Ontario College of Teachers, there were about 12,200 new teachers in the province in 2009, but only about 5,000 positions.

- Excerpted from: The Globe and Mail

Here's what he had to say at a college commencement address:

With iPods and iPads; Xboxes and PlayStations...information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation. (source: CNET)

(This, of course, is the same guy who also said "I’m still clinging to my BlackBerry ... They’re going to pry it out of my hands." (source: the New York Times)

Rooted in reality (if a touch overdramatized). Voice of the Martyrs estimates 176,000 Christians were killed for their faith from mid-2008 to mid-2009.

Comedy Central insists on censoring images of Muhammad in South Park.

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Yet at the same time, they're developing a comedy set around Jesus:

The cable network has announced that it's developing a series called "JC" -- a half-hour animated show about a dude named Jesus "JC" Christ who wants to escape his dad's (aka God) considerable shadow to chill in New York as a regular guy.

Things have changed on earth over the last 2,000 years and JC quickly discovers that he's a fish (and possibly a few loaves of bread) out of water. He gets little sympathy from a "powerful but apathetic" God, who prefers playing video games to listening to junior blabbering about life in the city.