Better than Humans

The regional, national, and international news stories which tend to dominate the pages of print media these days are not the most uplifting.  Yesterday, for example, The Sunday Star-Ledger ran another above-the-fold, front-page story on sex abuse. 

A Bottlenose Dolphin
(Courtesy of Wikipedia.com)

It is the latest in a series on this topic by staff writer Mark Muller, featuring a continuing investigative report by that newspaper on the Archdiocese of Newark and, in particular, the Rev. Michael Fugee.

Since the early 2000’s, I’ve done my own extensive, ongoing research on the issue of sexual abuse, particularly in the Roman Catholic Church.  I understand the nature and consequences of that problem very well, probably far more than most.  I’ve also come to discover how pervasive and pernicious it is throughout at least several other major professions.

However, it is not the sort of thing that I care to read about on a Sunday morning, as Pris and I settle down peacefully at the kitchen table with breakfast and a cup of coffee, preparing to read the Star-Ledger and the Courier News. 

Accordingly, I decided to bring your attention to several other, uplifting stories from the columns of the Star-Ledger instead: