“If that barb had been half an inch or an inch to one side, then he’d be saying, ‘Crikey’.”
Les Peel, pastor of a church in Beerwah, Queensland, on the death by stingray barb of Australian conservationist and “crocodile hunter” Steve Irwin (Sydney Morning Herald, 4 September)
“There’s a controversy in the United States because there is a lack of awareness of a thing called philosophy.”
Joseph Fessio, provost of Ave Maria University in Florida, on the “creationism problem” in the US; his Ignatius Press publishes Pope Benedict XVI’s books in English (Reuters, 4 September)
“I can understand the frustration and the anger and, most importantly,…
