Teacup Browsing

• The most common spoken languages other than English or Spanish (in the US).

• The myth of "clean kills." 

• Ron Rolheiser on private integrity.

• Matt Malone, S.J., interviews  one of my favorite theologians) Cardinal Walter Kasper about his book Mercy: The Essence of the Gospel and the Key to Christian Life.  Kasper has been in the news lately for conveying the need for greater mercy for divorced and remarried Roman Catholics.  See also the interview with Commonweal.

• Jesus rocks...rock.

• Perhaps the ugliest church in the world.

• That's odd.  Roma vying for "Miss Gypsy?"   Would that be the Gypsy Queens?  

• What to  Pope Francis, Malala Yousafzai, Edward Snowden and Russian President Vladimir Putin have in common?  You may be shocked.

• Emergent worship in Austin, TX.  Speaking of which will be in The Weird for a couple of days.

• A modern pope gets old school about the devil.

• Newly released on DVD is a biopic of Rich Mullins.  Haven't seen it yet but hearing good things. This weekend maybe.

• The sometimes maddening federal bureaucracy fails a veteran.

•  Pike ills, TN has a crack solution.

• Top low IQ criminal....

• ...and cleanly politicians