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...opening of an e-mail address (benedictXVI@vatican.va) signals a renewed desire of the Catholic Church to get in touch with young tech-savvy Christians. The bounds of such an endeavor seem limitless with the wonders of the Internet. Secure confession chat rooms would be just a start. Five “Hail Marys” would be considerably easier with cut-and-paste, but these sorts of wrinkles can be ironed out. The big challenge is going to be giving communion online. Once again, I think that the collective imagination of the Vatican can overcome these kinds of metaphysical...
...keeps in touch with its Harvard roots by occasionally returning to the Quad...
Music aficionados, don't touch that dial: 100.3 Jack FM is in random-shuffle mode, and a finicky channel changer might miss the next segment of generation-spanning sounds, which at noon includes Prince, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana and Men at Work. Jack FM is an example of terrestrial radio's answer to the satellite challenge, a hodgepodge of sound and attitude that marries prolonged music streams--sans DJ interruptions and caller requests--with limited commercials and shorter ad blocks. And when there are commercial breaks, a Jack announcer all but apologizes. "Time to pay the bills," he says...
This is why the Catholic Church cannot allow itself to change fundamentally. Critics of the Church have pressed for a pope more open-minded to dissenting views, to views that differ from the orthodoxy that seems to be imposed from a Vatican out of touch with the wider world. Yet if the new pope consents to contraception, abortion, euthanasia, homosexual marriage, or any of the other issues on which it is behind the times, he will allow the doubt that is so pervasive in modern society to become institutionally embedded in the worlds oldest functioning religious body. This would...
...People get very interested and say, ‘Wow that’s so cool,’ and ‘Can I touch your hair?’” Lussier says...