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Christian body art, recently examined in Christianity Today ( twice, actually), is discussed in Tuesday's South China Morning Post.

In his column, the ex-Christian novelist and biographer praises the pope—indeed, the whole of Roman Catholicism—for being a "Rock of Stumbling—in Greek, a Scandal, something you constantly bump into and stub your toe against. That is what I—sensual and unbelieving as I am—want the church to be. I don't want bishops with sensible views on contraception or on miracles, come to that. I want to have an institution which still proclaims, as very truth, the fantastical miracle of the Mass—that God himself comes down to His altars, as He did in the ages of Faith. I want, moreover, my smug, comfortable, ill-thought-out tolerance of all forms of human behaviour, however sordid, to be challenged and shaken up by difficult, cussed bigots. No one is more difficult or more cussed than Wojtyla, which is why I have come, not merely to revere him, but to love him." (Read a conversation with A.N Wilson in the September/October issue of our sister publication Books & Culture.)

"With the many questions swirling around her separation this week from media mogul Ted Turner, it's increasingly clear that spirituality is playing an increasing part in Jane Fonda's life," reports staff writer Jill Vejnoska. But she notes Fonda hasn't said anything, nor have her closest associates. More importantly, Vejnoska points out the dubitable reliability of the Internet source that broke the story.

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