US: Woman hangs and burns dog for chewing on Bible

SMH.

Authorities have charged a US woman with felony animal cruelty, saying she hanged her nephew’s pit bull from a tree with an electrical cord and burned its body because the dog chewed on her Bible.

Animal control officers said 65-year-old Miriam Smith told them she killed a female dog named Diamond because it was a “devil dog” and she worried it could harm neighbourhood children.

Pit bull? Maybe she has a point.

Italy: Pot, meet kettle

SMH.

Italy’s most senior Catholic bishop said Silvio Berlusconi’s private life threatened to turn Italy into a moral vacuum.

Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco said the Prime Minister’s conduct was sowing the seeds of an ”anthropological disaster”.

Young Italians would eschew abiding by the law and working hard in favour of easy money by ”selling” themselves, he said.

And he’d rather they were available free…