Link Roundup for April 12-18

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  • The Times reports that Richard Dawkins is calling for the arrest of Pope Benedict XVI. The Guardian has the text of Dawkins’ jeremiad. Canada.com reports that the Vatican is not taking such polemic too seriously.
  • Sociological Images comments on a study about the religiosity of college professors.
  • Montreal Gazette reports that the Vatican has officially forgiven the Beatles for their “past excesses.”
  • CBC reports that Montreal has suspended its second student from school for wearing a niqab.

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Link Roundup for April 5-11 2010

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  • Canada.com reports on Elton John’s recent controversial concert at the Mayan pyramids.
  • Canada.com also reports on children being happier for having a highly sophisticated spiritual sense.
  • The Guardian has an interesting op-ed piece about New Atheism by Madeline Bunting.
  • NPR has a story about defection from the Catholic church, but maintenance of Catholic identity in its wake.
  • The Independent has a review of a recent book about Mahatma Gandhi’s peculiar relationship with “sex.”

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Link Roundup for March 29-April 4 2010

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  • BBC News reports on the travelers coming to Kashmir in hopes of seeing finding the apocryphal location of his burial.
  • Canada.com reports on the Pope’s refusal to be intimidated by allegations about his role in clergy abuse scandals.
  • Montreal Gazette reports, if you recall the link from the previous roundup, about support for banning the niqab while working in a public occupation.
  • CBC News comments on observance of Palm Sunday in light of the accusations made against the pope recently.
  • Steve Wiggins comments on lawsuits against the Church of Scientology regarding labor laws. I was unable find a link directly to a news source.

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Link Roundup for March 16-28 2010

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  • CBC reports on on Quebec’s new policies about accommodating religious adherents in the public health-care system.
  • Canada.com has a piece about a neuroscientist’s work on the human capacity to understand God.
  • The Huffington Post has an op-ed from Christopher Cocca about “Christian art.”
  • Montreal Gazette has a piece about the prioritization of “secularism” and opposition to religious accommodation in Quebec.
  • New York Times has an op-ed about Bart Stupak’s opinion of nun in the political realm.
  • Canada.com reports on a recent study in the Journal of Obesity about the increasing sizes of the main course in visual depictions of the Last Supper.

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Link Roundup for March 7-15 2010

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  • 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.

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