Whenever I approach despair about the state of Catholicism in this country....

I take another look at the Anglicans, and I find myself cheering up. Exhibit L: Consider their new bible translation, As Good As New. Note how quickly it becomes dated--right when you reach the sixth word on the cover: "radical." There's nothing quite so likely to be reeking of the stale, desperate and cloying odor of irrelevance than a religious body that offers something up as "radical."

It never fails.

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