Mackerel-snapper news

I wasn't aware that Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, emeritus RC Archbishop of Paris, had died, but of course Whispers in the Loggia is my source of breaking RC news.

What interested me is the Jerusalem Post headline on the story about the cardinal's death. Pretty tart stuff.

Bears defecate in woods, and...

...this headline just about sums it up:

Pope Swims Tiber Again

This is about retired Bishop Clarence Pope, of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, Texas. He became a Roman Catholic several years ago, but returned to the Episcopal Church a few years later when Rome told him that, no, he couldn't become a RC bishop (Mrs. Pope was a bit of an obstacle there, as well as the fact that the RCs didn't need any more bishops in the area). Well, as the headline indicates, he's done it again. Presumably the RCs haven't changed their position (Mrs. Pope is still in the land of the living) but now-Mr. Pope has decided to swim anyway.

I do hope he remembers his way back. This wandering sheep strays regularly.