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Vatican body: Minnesota professor’s sin worse than genocide

By Paul Schmelzer | 01.16.09 | 4:23 pm

While Catholic bishops and priests can hear confessions about sins as severe as murder or genocide, the Vatican’s 830-year-old Apostolic Penitentiary is “reserved for crimes which are viewed by the Church as even more serious,” writes the UK’s Telegraph. In…

It’s just a cracker

By Paul Demko | 01.02.09 | 11:22 am

Congrats to PZ Myers. The caustic and often hilarious University of Minnesota, Morris professor and Pharyngula blogger has won the (not so) coveted Moore Award. This annual honor is given out by Daily Dish proprietor Andrew…