Friday Free-for-All

A few links to get the Friday morning rolling:

  • News: Copernicus’s grave and remains are identified, and he is reburied in Frombork Cathedral with honors. Not news: Media accounts breathlessly declare that the Vatican is “rehabilitating” the “heretical” scientist, in “repentance for its treatment of [him] over his theory that the Earth revolves around the Sun.” Even though the Church never declared him a heretic, actually encouraged him to publish his research, and gave him a Catholic burial suited to a canon at the time. Mark Shea has a full fisking of the story here.
  • Want your kids to be budding Copernicuses? Let them play in the dirt.
  • Forty women who identify themselves as mistresses of priests write a letter to the Vatican urging them to drop the celibacy rule.
  • ‘Choose your own Jesus’: Ross Douthat points out the fatal flaw in the “historical Jesus” campaigns.
  • The winners of the 2010 “Best Illusion of the Year” contest. The grand-prize winner, below, still blows my mind; no tricks here, other than the trick of perspective. You can read an explanation for how it works at the link.

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  • Margaret Cabaniss

    Margaret Cabaniss is the former managing editor of Crisis Magazine. She joined Crisis in 2002 after graduating from the University of the South with a degree in English Literature and currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland. She now blogs at SlowMama.com.

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