Didn't you know the Catholic Church is anti-science?

Fr. Lamaitre and some other famous scientist guy.

Oh look! Another article enlightening the world to how backwards and anti-science the Catholic Church is!  This article should be especially shocking to the members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, as well as famous historical Catholic scientists like Fr . Georges Lamaitre. It was posted on 18 June 2015, of the Gregorian Calendar, named for Pope Gregory XIII, whose astronomers realized problems with the Julian calendar, particularly with respect to the dating of Easter.  I wonder what Fr. Robert Barron would have to say!

Oh, media

I saw this headline online.  The Houston Chronicle apparently wants to turn the pope's encyclical into something political.  Surprise, surprise!  Will it have political implications?  Yes.  The Church is in the world (though not of the world) and so will be involved in politics, but she is a Church, not a Super PAC, and so her sole purpose is glorifying God.  Everything she does is to that end.

It cleans not your soul

My favorite bit of "fine print" I've ever seen was in a commercial several years ago for Orbit gum that involved Snoop Dogg going to Hell.  After cleaning his mouth with Orbit, he went to Heaven.  The fine print said,

Dramatization.  Orbit gum will not get you into Heaven.

Clearly, someone at the advertising agency either had a sense of humor, was very pious, or was superstitious.  I can imagine some designer saying, "I don't want to be responsible before God for that one person who thought Orbit was his ticket to Heaven!"

Most fine print is designed to limit legal liability.  There is no legal liability here, unless someone was afraid of King Hamlet's ghost suing for vengeance.

I suppose it would be too much to ask for the fine print to say, "Dramatization.  Only Jesus Christ will get you into Heaven."  At least we know that Orbit gum is not the Way, the Truth, and the Life.