I was musing recently about subjective morality, and thought of something that I found rather amusing:

“There is no such thing as right or wrong.”
[ ] Right   [ ] Wrong

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CD has recently installed the CRE, so all CD bloggers will have the ability to have scripture and catechism references activated with little intervention or maintenance on their part.

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Version 0.8.13 of the Catholic Reference Extension for Wordpress is now available. The texts were not changed, so upgrading can be accomplished by downloading only the package without texts, which is much smaller (zip 25kb | tar.bz2 23kb)

This version has the following changes:

• A checkbox now exists in the Edit Post sidebar to deactivate or activate the CRE on a per-post basis.

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Version 0.8.11 of the Catholic Reference Extension for Wordpress is now available. The texts were not changed, so upgrading can be accomplished by downloading only the package without texts, which is much smaller (zip 25kb | tar.bz2 23kb)

This version has the following changes:

• You can now use the string “[nocathref]” anywhere in the post or page content, and the CRE will not operate on any references in the post. This is in lieu of using the exclamation mark in front of each of many references.

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I recently finished reading The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief by Dr. Francis S. Collins. If that title piques your interest, you should read the book. The book brings up many issues worthy of thought and pondering, but one which really stood out for me was the issue of the ensoulment of identical twins. I was disappointed that the book does not provide any answers, or even much coverage of the alternative viewpoints of this problem, so I went to investigate the matter myself. (more…)