Monthly Archives: October 2006

To the Pope-mobile

On May 13, 1981, Pope John Paul II went into St. Peter’s Square in Rome to bless some 20,000 worshippers. As he entered, a man named Mehmet Ali Hagca pulled out a 9mm pistol and shot the Pope four times from 15 feet away. Although Il Papa survived the assassination attempt, what resulted was a new cultural icon — the Pope-mobile. Continue reading

Not One Jot or Tittle…or Yod

Two of the groups tasked with xeroxing the Hebrew Bible (a.k.a. the Old Testament) in ancient times were the Talmudists and the Masoretes. They had very strict rules regarding the practice of replicating the Holy Scriptures. Continue reading