Wednesday digest

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New today from the Century:

• The next entry in our Case by Case series on pastoral dilemmas: "Larry wondered what Stan wanted to see him about. Stan was not the sort of parishioner who often asked for counsel or help with a problem." (subscription required)

• Julie Byrne—in a post published shortly before the white smoke was seen at the Sistine Chapel—considers the idea of Pope Nobody the First

• Steve Thorngate on homeschoolers seeking real science

• "Cricket song," a poem by William Kelley Woolfitt

• A brief review of Elie Wiesel