Vatican is saying ‘nothing to do with us’ but the sermon probably circulated for comment at a senior level.
Category: Latest News
Welcome to our archive of news stories relevant to the project of fighting fashionable nonsense. The stories are drawn from the electronic pages of the world’s media. On this page, you’ll find links to those stories that have been featured on Butterflies and Wheels during the current year. At the bottom of the page, you’ll find links to separate archives of stories from previous years.
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Vatican Quickly Distanced Itself From Remarks
Yet the official Vatican newspaper published the remarks in its Saturday edition.
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Exiled Murphy May Have Continued Abuse
He interacted freely with children for the rest of his life, never having been punished by church or secular law.
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Vatican Official Rebukes New York Times
Detailed fury at reporting, zero worry about victims.
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Human Rights for All Replies to Amnesty Int.
The principles of universality and equality are being challenged by concessions to ‘cultural rights.’
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Row Over Amnesty’s Support for ‘Defensive Jihad’
Leading South Asian rights campaigners accuse AI of ‘undermining” the campaign against sex discrimination.
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Katha Pollitt on Papal Indulgences
The moral authority granted the Catholic Church in the secular world is the most repellent aspect of the crisis.
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Letters to the Nation on Gita Sahgal and AI
In Algeria, AI defended the rights of fundamentalists, rather than the rights of their victims.
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Are Women’s Rights Still Human Rights?
Sahgal was one of the first to understand the threat fundamentalist movements pose to women’s rights.
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Gordon Brown: Catholicism ‘Conscience of Nation’
Absolutely rejects the idea that religion should be tolerated but not encouraged in public life.
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The Priest is Supposed to Be ‘Another Christ’
It’s doubtful that Catholicism can survive the smashing of its altars and thrones.
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Even Archbish of Canterbury Fed Up With Pope
Pope’s preacher’s compares accusations against the Pope to the ‘collective violence suffered by the Jews.’
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Victims, Jewish Groups Slam ‘Shameful’ Remarks
Vatican official compared ‘violent’ criticism of pope and church to anti-Semitism.
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Vatican ‘Is Fighting Back’
The self-pitying thugs compare themselves to the victims of anti-Semitism. It’s beyond belief.
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Simon Singh Wins Appeal
Ruling determines that Singh can defend his writing as ‘fair comment’ rather than having to justify it as fact.
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Singh’s Victory Raises Hopes for Libel Reform
The judges quoted Orwell and Milton, made clear that court is not the place to settle scientific controversies.
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Index on Censorship on Singh Ruling
A chilling effect on public debate which might otherwise have assisted potential patients to make informed choices.
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Jack of Kent: ‘An Astonishingly Liberal Judgment’
Scientific controversies must be settled by the methods of science rather than by the methods of litigation.
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2011 Very Big Atheist Conference: Schedule Set
And I’m invited! First time ever! Marcotte and I will talk on Etiquette and Comportment for Atheist Ladies.
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Full Text of BCA vs Singh
The unhappy impression has been created that this is an endeavour by the BCA to silence one of its critics.