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...atomic clock and Earth's rotation, within a few hundred years the position of the sun in the sky would noticeably differ with the time on your kitchen clock, an aspect of earthly timekeeping that has caused much consternation historically, vexing everyone from Julius Caesar to Pope Gregory XIII. So, in 1972, an international agreement decreed that instead of continually revising the definition of a second, atomic clocks would be adjusted by adding a leap second each time an appreciable discrepancy was detected by observations made at the International Earth Rotation Service in Paris. Since then, 24 leap seconds have...
...defended democracy against doctrine. Aquinas and Murray figure prominently in books like Faithful Dissenters, by Robert McClory, which chronicle how such independent souls have not only questioned the church but helped save it from the kind of glaring errors - like its acceptance of slavery, a stance that Pope Leo XIII finally ended in 1888 - that underscore what a human and fallible institution the church...
Pope John Paul II had a similar view. He believed that “animals possess a soul” and are “as near to God as men are.” Nor is this sentiment new: Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903) was the patron of the French Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) and Pope John XXIII (1958-63) declared that “man must never hurt animals, must never ill-treat them, nor torture them physically.” In Saint Thomas Moore’s Utopia, the slaughtering of animals...
...band puts their dancing shoes back on and hits the road again. Our only hope is that JT is too busy wishing bad karma on ex-girlfriends and bringing sexy back. 4. “The Land Before Time” “The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends” came out less than a month ago. But with the original adventure of Little Foot, Ducky, and the rest of the gang hitting their 20-year anniversary in 2008, it seems almost inevitable that there will be another sequel in the works to celebrate...