This is the kind of thing that I think gives Christianity a bad name:  The Vatican is copyrighting everything the Pope says, which means they'll also be charging money for it.  The copyright is also retroactive:  It applies to the past 3 Popes before the current one.  (via Boing Boing)

Even though I don't associate myself with the Catholic Church (Catholicism is in fact different from Christianity, though we can peacefully coexist), a lot of people do, and this is unfortunate.  Christianity is the belief in God and his son Jesus Christ, who acted as a sacrifice for our sins by dying on the cross.  Catholicism is the same thing, with the addition of a Pope (an infallible being sent from God ... or elected by a bunch of high-ranking Catholic officials), confirmation (mandatory membership in the church), and lent (the thing where everybody stops eating chocolate for a month). #religion