For Christians Easter Sunday is an eerie pause between Good Friday’s tumult and the even greater upheaval of Easter Monday, so quiet, C.S. Lewis says in the Narnia Chronicles, “you feel as if nothing was ever going to happen again.” For non-Christians it’s a chance to hunt coloured eggs and wonder idly whether trading a cosmic message of redemption for a bunny made of bad-tasting chocolate was quite the deal it seemed at the time. And whether there isn’t something to be said for the occasional unnaturally quiet day. Click here to read the rest.
[Correction: This column contains a stupid mistake. Christians of course believe the Resurrection occurred on Sunday not Monday. Mea culpa.]
People seem astounded the new pope is not a sexual liberal. What, were they expecting Austin Powers I? Click here to read the rest.
Canada's new Office of Religious Freedom, with a $5-million budget and astaff of five, may set tyrants around the world shaking ... with laughter. But a candle is worth lighting given the extent of darkness out there.
Oh, here's a charming story out of Libya. Authorities just arrested four foreigners on suspicion of being Christian missionaries. So why weren't we told about this sooner? Like in 2011 when we were fighting to put such splendid freedom-loving people in power there. Click here to read the rest.
Benedict XVI startled the world this week by becoming the ninth pope toannounce he'll step down. Or possibly the fifth. We're not sure. But as only the second to resign because the job was too much for him, the first to quit in almost 600 years and the first ever to do it because of failing health, the allegedly reactionary Benedict set a boldly innovative precedent.
King Richard III seems to have turned up at last. Mangled. In a ruined monastery. Under a parking lot in Leicester. What are we going to do about it?