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Nominations for the Catholic Blog Awards are now open but only until February 9th... (hint hint). Though of course my ego would love a nomination... I also point you to the many wonderful blogs that I link to that are far more superior to mine.
The categories are for:
- 1. Best Overall Catholic Blog
- 2. Best Designed Catholic Blog
- 3. Best Written Catholic Blog
- 4. Best New Catholic Blog
- 5. Best Individual Catholic Blog
- 6. Best Group Blog
- 7. Best Blog by Clergy/Religious/Seminarian
- 8. Funniest Catholic Blog
- 9. Smartest Catholic Blog
- 10. Most Informative & Insightful Catholic Blog
- 11. Best Apologetic Blog
- 12. Best Political/Social Commentary Catholic Blog
- 13. Best Insider News Catholic Blog
- 14. Most Spiritual Blog
Be warned that you have to sign-up to nominate... but then again you probably have to sign up to vote later on anyway.
[Pity there isn't an award for most outrageous Australian Blog, but then again Dominicanus might win that!
From the ABC News website:
Uni to vote on church's demand for stem cell research ban
The University of Sydney is considering complying with a church request to ban a new medical research centre from conducting embryonic stem cell research.
The university wants to buy land from the Catholic Church to build the Institute of Health and Medical Research.
The church's deed on the land stipulates there should be no foetal stem cell research or procedures involving the termination of human life or artificial creation of it.
The president of the Student Representative Council, Angus McFarland, says it is outrageous a health and medical research facility would be banned from such research.
"I'm really concerned that is going to be compromising academic freedom," he said.
"To build a medical research centre on land where you are not allowed to ever, ever engage in human stem cell research or any sort of research that involves the artificial creation or termination of life - I think it's a very limiting thing for the university to do."
The university's Senate will vote tonight on whether to accept the conditions.
I sit on the equivalent of the Senate at the University of Adelaide. The choice is simple - comply or don't buy, and they would be silly not to buy!
(From CathNews earlier this week)
Catholics in a Polish lace-making village that produces altar cloths and robes for priests - including the Pope - are in uproar after declining demand for their products led women to develop hot selling new product lines including sexy G-strings for international markets.
The Age reports that the radical adaptation of the traditional skills of the women of the southern mountain village of Koniakow has proved a huge success and online sales of items costing over $100 are soaring.
But the Catholic Church and other critics say the new products including tight little tops, pants, bras and G-strings, known as stringi, are bringing shame on a respectable craft.
Malgorzata Stanaszek, who set up Koni-Art underwear and is now supplying Japanese, American and European customers, said: "We weren't selling much lace, so we had to think of something. It wasn't one woman's idea, it was more like a collective idea."
However, Mieczylaw Kamieniarz, who runs the lace museum in Koniakow, says that "all of Koniakow is ashamed".
"We have made Koniakow lace for altar cloths, priests' robes, even the Pope himself. And now people are going to wear Koniakow lace on their bottoms."
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This actually made it into the daily paper in Melbourne. Makes you wonder really...
