Another amazon.com list

Listmania: The West originated in Christianity and the Catholic Church
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Reading List: The Catholic Thing: Three Clergyman, Robert Royal

Last week, three Christian clergymen were featured in the pre-Christmas news, and how they were treated tells us a good bit about where we have gotten to in our public ethos – and even our public etiquette.

A good summary of the three Christmas messages. The article lacked links which I have added here:

Rick Warren (no transcript)

Rowan Williams Christmas Sermon

Pope Benedict Christmas Message

I added as a comment there that Rowan Williams is again obsessed with power (his word is "authority" but he means power), and with the redistribution of wealth.