Links

- Pierre-Jean De Smet SJ

- See, it's not just me, and it's not just Junipero Serra ... St. Louis University has removed a statue of Jesuit missionary Pierre-Jean De Smet

- From Nick Jones (A Wolf Called Romeo)... Arctic drilling invites disaster: Column

- Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors says it 'has no jurisdiction to comment on individual cases or inquiries'. So one wonders what the point of their existence as a sex abuse commission actually is.

- Another minute video from Presbyterian minister Patrick Vaughn. He says that being created in the image of God means being created for relationship. I do like his way of looking at things :) ...