CNN.com – Greek mystery virus spreads

“It should be considered blasphemous, to say the least, to consider it possible that epidemic ailments could be transferred through holy communion and endanger human life,” the Athens diocese said in a statement released to Reuters news agency.

Déjà vu, anyone? Can’t put my finger on why it rings a bell; maybe I read too much scifi.

I’m a bit puzzled that the recent powwow in Rome was attended by all the American cardinals rather than all the American bishops.

As I misunderstand it, bishop is primarily an office, but cardinal is primarily a personal rank; a cardinal may or may not also be a bishop, in charge of all the churches of a diocese (territory), just as a prince (member of a royal family) may or may not also be a duke (ruler, once upon a time, of a duchy), and vice versa.

How many cardinals are not bishops? How many dioceses have bishops who are not cardinals, and thus were not represented?

I’ve just been invited to join Amazing Grace Tract Fellowship on InJesus.com.

We provide Chick tracts and other materials to Evangelical Christian Missionaries worldwide.

Is this someone’s twisted joke, or was my address harvested because I mentioned Chick last month?

Cintra Wilson raises the alarm:

I must warn the world about Tom Cruise. I feel he is an utterly terrifying Superior Life Form, with the power to melt heads and braid spines. His eyes are as hard, shiny and brutally penetrating as diamond drill-bits. . . . Tom Cruise is becoming the Scary Flaming Eye from “The Lord of the Rings,” and I fear that nobody can stop him.

See what Scientology can do for you?