Link Roundup for March 7-15 2010

• Politics Daily comments on Glenn Beck’s polemic against churches advocating “social justice.”
• CBC News reports on the beginning of an investigation about abuse in the Catholic church.
• The Guardian, in some rather striking news in the same matter, reports that the Archbishop of Vienna links celibacy to priestly sex scandals, calling for a reconsideration of strict celibacy.

• BBC News reports on the Lemba people of Zimbabwe’s claims to Israelite heritage and the genetic testing on the matter.
• CBC News reports that Quebec has banned religious education in publicly-funded day care centers.
• On the same topic, the Montreal Gazette reports on B’nai Brith – a Jewish human-rights group – calling for an end to religious education in these day care centers.
• CBC reports on a controversy over a political “cartoon” (I use the word “cartoon” loosely) about the niqab.
• National Catholic Reporter has profiles of each of Obama’s seven spiritual advisers.
• BBC News reports on a scheme to allow prisoners to reduce their sentences by becoming monks in the Georgian Orthodox church.
• The Hobgoblin posts an essay that Roland Boer wrote about Marx and the secular state.