Are you keeping up with the tweeting of the Pope?

I started "following" him, but then there were no tweets, and I check Twitter so rarely, that I hadn't read any of his tweets....

"Does Mitt Romney’s Mormonism make him too scary or weird to be elected to president of the United States?"

Asks Glenn Beck, a Mormon, speaking to Evangelical Christians, reported in the NYT. During his special program, Mr. Beck took questions from...

Kateri Tekakwitha, Lily of the Mohawks...

... the first Native American saint.

Email from John Kerry: "I have one message burned into my memory..."

What?! I can't believe Kerry would evoke his old "memory which is seared — seared — in me" line. If you don't have that se...

"I was Episcopalian, he was a Mormon," said Ann Romney, and Ross Douthat says that was "straining to make an affinity sound like an impediment."

Douthat lumps Episcopalians and Mormons together. He's got a big theory about it. Mormons are the WASPs of the West or something. Douth...

At the Black Sheep Café...

... you can't go too far astray.

"I am not ashamed of the Gospel because it is the power of God...."

Somewhere in America, I stopped to take a photograph of a collection of signs... I wanted to take a photograph of the café itself, and I nee...

Madonna and Yoko Ono appeal to Vladimir Putin to free Pussy Riot.

Pussy Riot is on trial for a performance in the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in which they "danced and sang a song which parodies a Ch...

What is Obama pointing at?

The Drudge headline says "Unrelenting," and the link goes to "Unrelenting Obama jabs at Romney's job record." But l...

What we learn about Scientology from the Katie Holmes/Tom Cruise divorce.

Holmes seeks sole custody of the couple's 6-year-old child Suri, who has supposedly been raised under principles of Scientology: Suri i...

"Making Mormons look bad helps others feel good."

"By imagining Mormons as intolerant rubes, or as heretical deviants, Americans from left and right can imagine they are, by contrast, t...

"The discovery of the original Barnabas Bible will now undermine the Christian Church and its authority and will revolutionize the religion in the world."

"The most significant fact, though, is that this Bible has predicted the coming of Prophet Mohammad and in itself has verified the reli...

139 human individuals... mostly Pakistani soldiers....

... buried under 70 feet of avalanched snow. The Siachen Glacier, known as the world's highest battleground, is 6,300 meters (20,670 fee...

"77% Believe Jesus Rose From the Dead."

Is that likely voters? What's the margin of error? Rasmussen has a poll. Seventy-eight percent (78%) think Jesus was the son of God. Six...

"Nine men were crucified for a few minutes..."

"... in Pampanga province’s San Pedro Cutud village, while at least eight others were crucified in neighboring villages."

"Kristin Chenoweth Defends GCB from Newt Gingrich Attacks: 'Don't Talk About My Show!'"

Sometimes the political news just seems way too specific . But, okay, Kristin, you adorable little gnome, bounce your TV show PR off the Re...

"Do you ever recognize how critical you are? Just curious."

"Thank you for sharing that. I have choir practice tonight." Crack Skull Bob — the other Crack — eavesdrops on can't help he...

"A Rhode Island teen is learning that it pays to deny the existence of God..."

"... Prominent atheists plan to present Jessica Ahlquist with a scholarship of at least $44,000 — and possibly more." If you subsi...

"What I’d love to see at tonight’s debate..."

"... Ashes." IN THE COMMENTS: Bob says: Get real. They have to wear stage makeup for the debate, so if Santorum is wearing ashes f...

"The ESPN editor fired Sunday for using 'chink in the armor' in a headline about Knicks phenom Jeremy Lin..."

"... said the racial slur never crossed his mind - and he was devastated when he realized his mistake." [Anthony Federico] said he...