David Mills

• In second place but way behind the leader in a 3000-meter race, Iván Fernández Anaya pulled up when he realized his opponent had stopped before the finish line, thinking he’d won the race. He then, reports the newspaper El País, “stayed behind and, using gestures, guided the Kenyan to . . . . Continue Reading »

For those of you who don’t have the kinds of friends I do and therefore haven’t gotten this link several times already: Lutheran Satire presents Choose Your Pope!  It’s a truly ecumenical gesture. . . . . Continue Reading »

A friend with a taste for newspaper archives and curiosities sends this link: a Catholic Herald story from 1967 titled Bunnies’ Sunday survey . An interdenominational magazine called  Sunday  surveyed the “bunnies” from the London Playboy club and found: Nearly half the . . . . Continue Reading »

From Benedict’s last General Audience , held in Rome this morning: When, almost eight years ago, on April 19th, [2005], I agreed to take on the Petrine ministry, I held steadfast in this certainty, which has always accompanied me. In that moment, as I have already stated several times, the . . . . Continue Reading »

The odds of Richard Dawkins becoming the next pope, according to the Irish betting site Paddypower.com, is 666 to 1. . . . . Continue Reading »

“If you value the work that religious enterprises do, if you value the free exercise of religion, then you’re going to at least be sensitive to regulatory mandates that impose new and often pretty burdensome costs on them,” our friend and writer Richard Garnett told NPR yesterday . . . . Continue Reading »

“A university academic has criticised David Attenborough’s wildlife shows for not featuring enough gay animals,” reports The Independent . The academic, named Mills, who I hope is a very, very distant relative, writing in the European Journal of Cultural Studies , says ‘The . . . . Continue Reading »

“I do find it a puzzling quality of liberal Christians that they tend to get excited when something that had been a cherished belief or practice of the Church is shown to have been false,” says Rod Dreher , commenting on a new book by a Notre Dame historian who says that the early . . . . Continue Reading »

Catholic World News reports that Benedict may be more seriously ill than thought . Peter Seewald, the German journalist who interviewed him, met him a few weeks ago and reports that he was exhausted, losing his hearing and sight in one eye, and had lost so much weight he needed new vestments. We . . . . Continue Reading »

Benedict may say that divided Christians must “keep in view just how much we have in common . . . in terms of the great deposit of sacred Scripture and the early Christian creeds,” as Matthew Schmitz wrote yesterday , and some modern Lutherans may agree, but this is not universally . . . . Continue Reading »