Fr. Joseph Carola, SJ has an article entitled "Da Vinci Disarmed". It's rather long but a good read. I think the Church is not upset at the book as much as they are by it's popularity. They are afraid the ideas in the book may be either representative of what people already believe about the Catholic Church or that those ideas might take hold. Both are not unreasonable fears as a recent poll stated that 3/4 of Britons believed the wild alegations in the book as fact. This will pass but only after the book fades into the background like all other pop culture phenomenons.
Feds eye Stevens' home remodeling project
Feds eye Stevens' home remodeling project . Thank God they're going after this guy. He's been so brazen with his porkbarreling and the whiff of corruption around him has been ripe enough to smell from here. I'd rather have a 100% democrat run Congress if they were ethical. Term limits. One term for Senate, two for the House, one for the President. Some fear that would increase the power of lobbyists. Simple, ban any former members from being lobbyists and limit lobbyists to terms as well. (I'm not sure how that would work. Just a thought.) The other answer is transparency. No earmarks without a floor vote. No spending of any kind without a floor vote. All spending committees (intelligence aside) open to the public and recorded and available on the web.
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