Notes and Quotes by Terry Mattingly E very day, journalists who cover religion face waves of letters, press releases, magazines, books and, now, Internet versions of all of the above. Some of this is news. Most of it isn't. But many items fall somewhere in between and create drifts of paper in my office.
Physicists say that the universe had to surmount vast odds to exist at all.
No one stops to think about that, ordinarily, until an event like this one brings it into focus. But there was a surgeon on Flight 32. Unprotected dialogue leads inexorably to wholly unproductive monologue. No translation was offered for the church-lingo impaired. On the right, some Protestants said it conceded too much to Catholics.