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The catholic cardinal George Pell has banned all talk about the sexual conquers of the deceased at funerals where lay persons perform the eulogy.

“On not a few occasions, inappropriate remarks glossing over the deceased’s proclivities (drinking prowess, romantic conquests, etc) or about the Church (attacking its moral teachings) have been made at funeral Masses,” said a directive by the cardinal.

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Once again popular media tries to hit Christianity with a deathly assault. The Discovery Channel has raised the question if a tomb excavated in 1980 could be the tomb of Jesus.

This would of course also mean the death of Christianity as we know it. So it is not a neutral question raised by the popular science channel.

A documentary will premiere on the Discovery Channel on March 4 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The documentary comes from executive producer James Cameron and director Simcha Jacobovici. http://www.discovery.com/tomb

One wonders why Discovery issues this as breaking news when the tomb was found already in 1980.

For most people - clergy and reliable scientists - it is pseudo science since the finding of a 2000 year old tomb in Israel equals the finding of a tomb of "Jones" in the US of today.

The people who loved to hate the church after the Da Vinci Code will watch the documentary and give their "Amen". Once again churches around the world has to spend time to fight popular (pseudo) science.

Taken positively this might also mean an increased interest in Christianity as did the Da Vinci Code. At least this was the result in Protestant circles here in Denmark.

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In the shop you can buy t-shirts, caps and mugs with the cool and good looking Habitus logo.

Enjoy!

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Yesterday it was Ash Wednesday here in Denmark. The alter in the Church of Our lady was closed and will not be opened until Easter Saturday at 24 o'clock.

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The Habitus Network is expanding its website at the moment. This also goes for the Habitus blogs which now allows visitors to digg stories at the popular www.digg.com site.

Under each blog entry you will see a small button with the "digg it" text.

What is the digg site?
"Digg is a user driven social content website. Ok, so what the heck does that mean? Well, everything on Digg is submitted by our community (that would be you). After you submit content, other people read your submission and Digg what they like best. If your story rocks and receives enough Diggs, it is promoted to the front page for the millions of visitors to see." (Quoted from digg.com)

One of my Orthodox friends send this joke to me:

Mitsos lived above his restaurant with only his beloved pet dog for
company. One day the dog died and Mitsos went to the parish priest and
asked, "Father, my dog died. Could you do a Trisagion for the poor
animal? He was like a son to me."
Father Nikos shook his head, "I'm afraid not; we cannot have services
for an animal in the church. But, there's a Unitarian church on the
next block, and God knows what they believe. Maybe they'll do something
for your dog."
Mitsos said, "I'll go right away Father. Do you think $5,000 is enough
to donate to them for the service?"
Father Niko exclaimed, "Kyrie Eleison! Vre Mitso, why didn't you tell
me the dog was Greek Orthodox?"