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Image description: the Pope, facing away from the camera. ‘Every time there is a single incident of abuse in the Catholic Church it is a scandal. And I’m glad it is a scandal’ – Cardinal Vincent Nichols’ response to questions on the Catholic Church’s continued association with rape and abuse of children was, in many […]
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Image description: Pope Francis in front of a pride flag. Last month, our progressively posturing Pope, Francis, made the ‘ground-breaking’ statement that “homosexual people have a right to be in a family.” As a Queer Catholic, I’m unimpressed. To me, this is nothing more than a token gesture from a Pope who has far too […]
Continue ReadingAn interview with Sanal Edamaruku on religion and rationality in India
Continue ReadingDespite all its problems, the Catholic Church now appears to have a courageous and strong leader who breaks the mould.
Continue ReadingIt is not often that I am inspired to seemingly defend Catholicism’s stance on paedophilia – nor, indeed, to ostensibly offer a plea for paedophiles themselves. But this is what this is: apparently such an apologia. Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier purportedly felt the same impulse recently on the Stephen Nolan show, accused by the titular 5 Live […]
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