The Independent Catholic News has again made a strange claim:
In the story of Ibrahim and Ishmael, which is shared by Islam and the Old Testament, God asked the prophet to prove his faith by sacrificing his son.

Turning quickly to the Bible we find a story that is certainly not shared by Islam and the Old [...]

Another post on open book pointing to John Allen's latest column. It's interesting to try to figure out what exactly Allen's appeal is. He certainly writes interestingly, provides some hard-to-come-by access to what's happening in Rome, and is knowledgeable about how the Vatican works. Yet for all that I find his columns relentlessly single-viewed, and [...]

The Independent Catholic News (ICN) has an apparently most puzzling story from Palestine. Their account of what happened paints a simple picture of a deliberate (or at least reckless) attack by Israelis troops, who fire on a group of children in a strawberry field, killing seven of them. Now it cannot be said that Israeli [...]

With the Asian tsunami, and churchmen agonizing over how God can permit such a random disaster, now is the time to examine the actions of humans more carefully, before deciding to glare angrily in God's direction. If the relation between God and the disasters of nature seems to be confounding and mysterious, the role played [...]