Outsourced Memory and Topical Fulminations for the Money-Got Mechanic Age
Well the Catholic Church is certainly showing just how sincerely contrite it is for its systemic failure to report child molesters and child rapists in its ranks.
Not content to compare the criticism the Church has faced to anti-Semitism and the persecution of the Jews (a claim most eloquently shot out of the water by the [...]
Remember how the Infallible Ratzo gave this dressing down to the Irish bishops in his recent pastoral letter?
It cannot be denied that some of you and your predecessors failed, at times grievously, to apply the long-established norms of canon law to the crime of child abuse. Serious mistakes were made in responding to [...]
Just been watching the first episode of Channel 4’s “The Bible – A History“, in which Howard Jacobson talks about the creation myth in Genesis and demonstrates the apparently detrimental effect that reading English at Cambridge has on one’s reading comprehension.
Though billed as a history of the Bible, only about the first quarter of the [...]
First post of 2010 and under the Dermot Ahern blasphemy law. RTE’s PrimeTime had a feature of the law, which is drawing admiring noises from such bastions of individual liberty as Egypt, Iran and Pakistan.
On the panel was Ali Salim from the Irish Council of Imams who wanted to draw the line between “freedom [...]
The Irish Times:
MINISTER FOR Justice Dermot Ahern has told Fianna Fáil TDs and Senators concerned about the Civil Partnership Bill that he is ruling out a “freedom of conscience” amendment.
Even he can see that religious bigotry shouldn’t allow you to ignore the law of the land, even if it is dressed up as individual conscience. [...]
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