Free Republic

From women deacons to married priests, Vatican officials seem to be 'flying the kite' for several radical ideasThe Vatican, as this magazine reports, has denied that there ever was a commission to oversee an “Ecumenical Mass”, that is, a Mass that could be celebrated by Catholics and Protestants together.  Furthermore, Cardinal Woelki of Cologne went as far as to say any such project would be impossible, given the differences in belief between Catholics and Protestants.All this should put an end to the persistent rumours that the “Ecumenical Mass” was in preparation.Needless to say, the whole thing was a non-starter, but...

Very Neat. Something for a slow Friday nite. Enjoy (Wish the guy would put a shirt on, though. He's getting too much sun.)

Lahore: Increasing casualties from kite flying have prompted a provincial minister to threaten the use of the anti-terrorism law to curb the use of hazardous kites, while an organisation has called for a total ban of the sport. Flying kites which is a tradition of the spring festival Basant in Punjab province has resulted in seven accidental deaths in a span of 14 days in Lahore. The sport is banned in the province, but the Supreme Court has lifted it for 15 days from Sunday for the Basant festival. The Jamiat Ulema Pakistan (JUP) has asked the Punjab government to...

THIRTEEN people have been killed and more than 500 injured during an annual kite-flying festival in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore. Seven people with severe head injuries died in the city's General Hospital alone, and about 220 people were admitted with a variety of injuries including broken bones, hospital officials said. The two-day festival of Basant, marking the start of spring, began with thousands of revellers perched on rooftops. Two teenagers were killed when they fell from a roof, and two more were killed when a car hit them while they were trying to catch a stray kite, police...