✣ Highlights from the week online
How Sherlock Holmes deduced the afterlife At the National Catholic Register, Sherlock Holmes fan Dan Andriacco went sleuthing – on the trail of Sherlock’s faith. Holmes wasn’t a Catholic, but he seems to be a believer of some sort. He says that flowers demonstrate “the goodness of Providence” – a matter of “deduction”, he tells Watson. He dissuades one character from suicide by telling her, “Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it,” and warns another: “It is not for me to judge you. You will soon answer for your deed at a higher court than the Assizes.”
