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Almost nine in 10 Catholics in Ireland want priests to be allowed to marry | World news | guardian.co.uk
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/12/catholics-ireland-priests-allowed-married

An overwhelming majority of Catholics in Ireland want priests to be allowed to marry, according to a survey conducted on behalf of the Irish priesthood’s unofficial representative association.

The Association of Catholic Priests’ opinion poll, released on Thursday, found that 87% of Irish Catholics said priests should be allowed to marry.

The survey of 1,000 Catholics questioned over a fortnight in February by Amarach Consulting also discovered that 77% of believers said women should be ordained.

#religion

#Vatican and Bodleian libraries to offer rare collections online | World news | guardian.co.uk
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/12/vatican-bodleian-libraries-online-collections

Six centuries after it was founded by Pope Nicholas V for “the common convenience of the learned”, the treasures of the Vatican library are to become accessible to scholars and the public alike via the internet.

Greek manuscripts of works by Homer and Plato, perhaps the earliest Hebrew codex in existence and scores of early printed Italian books are among thousands of texts that will be made freely available online by the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (BAV) and Oxford University’s Bodleian library.

China’s #internet users temporarily blocked from foreign websites | World news | guardian.co.uk
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/12/china-internet-users-foreign-websites

#censure ou #panne : un petit glitch dans le grand #firewall de #Chine

China relies on cables running from three points, making it easy for access to be choked off intentionally or by accident.
(...) Li Kaifu, the former boss of Microsoft and then Google in China, told his 12 million microblog followers: “All foreign websites are inaccessible!” adding emoticons to show disappointment, surprise and curiosity.
(...) Internet users’ suspicions were increased by the fact that the problems came amid a crackdown on “internet rumours”.
Xinhua reported on Thursday that the authorities had removed more than 210,000 online posts and shut down 42 websites since March.