Afternoon Links — 11.5.10

A selection of eastern saints recognized in both the Catholic and Orthodox calendars, though they lived after the Great Schism of 1054.

Nearly half of Americans don’t think Daylight Savings Time worth the hassle . 11% think they should turn their clocks forward on Sunday.

The greatest number of people break up with their partners in late February or early December, the first period being known as “spring cleaning,” according to a study of Facebook entries. There’s even a spike on April Fool’s day.

Forbes lists the 68 people “who matter” and ranks Pope Benedict XVI as number five. If Forbes is right, the world is doomed.

On Sunday the pope, obviously not thinking about ways to raise his ranking, will consecrate ” the basilica of the Sagrada Família , the stunning masterpiece of Christian art conceived by the brilliant architect Antoni Gaudí, whose beatification cause is underway.”

While back in Rome, a church near the Vatican has turned part of its crypt into a nightclub named for John Paul II, with a chapel near the back where the parish priest hears confessions.

Christianity may gain legal status for the first time in the Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan, which currently recognizes on Buddhist and Hindu organizations.

Broken families cost the U.K. up to 100 billion pounds a yea r, a government minister has said. The Millennium Cohort Study recently reported that, among other problems, one in four children of unmarried parents living together suffered a breakup before they were five, compared with one in ten children whose parents were married.

The Church of England has charged that t he Labour government thought all religions the same and all “sub-rational,” and that “The task of government was to contain, and mediate between religious groups whose place in the public sphere was not generally conceded.” The new Coalition government is not necessarily much better.

Campus minister Steve Garber reflects on what the “info-glut culture” means for college students and those who teach them, while Evangelical theologian Soong-Chan Rah reflects on what a multi-cultural church will look like .

Catholic ethicist William May explains what Catholics should think about “do not resuscitate” orders , while the legal scholar Margaret Datiles explores the ethical thicket of wrongful life and wrongful birth issues ; and another Catholic ethicist, E. Christian Brugger, explains the ethics of fetal pain .

Thanks to Kevin Staley-Joyce, Mary Ellen Kelly, the Christian Institute , and Worldwide Religion News for links.