Everybody needs a pick me up every now and again. That’s why once in a while it’s good to peruse the day’s headlines for something cheerful and upbeat. I’ve taken some of my favourite stories from today’s media, so that I can share them with you. Firstly, there where several unlikely heroes in Washington as three brothers canoeing were caught off guard by the rough, freezing water of Washington Creek . A group of prison inmates were working nearby when they heard screams for help. At first the prisoners thought that it was a group of children playing until they saw the

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At the outset let me state that I have no religious axe to grind or position to push.  But clearly Pope Benedict XVI needs some help. For an organisation whose primary purpose is to spread the good word, Pope Benedict’s recent ‘Rite & Reason’ article in the Irish Times must surely be a best practice example of how not to do it. Starting your communication to lay people with the line “Significant exponents of modern exegesis take the view that when Matthew and Luke say, Jesus was born in Bethlehem, they are making a theological statement, not a historical one.”

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