Bishop this, Rector that, Muslim Council of the other, issuing instructions.
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.
We’re always pleased to hear about news stories that you think should be featured on Butterflies and Wheels. Just send an email here, if you want to point one out to us.
A note about links
Inevitably links go out of date. We suggest, therefore, that you make hard-copies of the stories that particularly interest you.
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Lessons in Morality From People Who Disgust You
It’s hard to pay lip-service to a faith that you feel hates you, that would rather let you die in childbirth than have an abortion.
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Vatican Faces Test of ‘Moral Credibility’
It’s failing the test in spectacular fashion.
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Cloyne Diocese Kept Secret Archive on Abuse
Achive contains stunning data – recorded in meticulous detail – on abuse allegations over several years.
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‘How Could Catholics Do Such a Thing?’
Communion is Love; you have to be in a State of Grace; surely child rape is a sin.
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Vatican’s Blame-shifting Shows It Hasn’t Learned
It’s all utterly squalid.
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Archbishop of NY Says: Blame Those Others!
Blame the doctor. Blame public schools. Blame judges, police, district attorneys, parole officers.
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The Pope Did Know; He Got the Memo
Saying a priest would be returned to pastoral work within days of beginning therapy for molesting children.
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Marieme Helie Lucas on AI and Gita Sahgal
Fundamentalists were privileged as victims of the state while women, victims of the fundamentalists, disappeared.
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Why Tom Flynn Doesn’t Believe in New Atheism
Because it doesn’t exist; atheism is not new.
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Bishop: Pope’s Critics Are Satan
Emeritus bishop of Acerra sees a war ‘between the church and the world; between Satan and God.’
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Sinead O’Connor Knows Irish Catholicism
‘We Irish endured a brutal brand of Catholicism that revolved around the humiliation of children.’
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Vatican Fights Back
By reminding us that it’s not only the Catholic church that abuses children. Brilliant.
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Templeton Winner Calls Dawkins a Fundamentalist
Ayala says science and religion cannot be in contradiction because they address different questions.
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Scientists Write to NAS Head Cicerone
Harry Kroto and others are disturbed by the Templeton Foundation and the NAS’s involvement with it.
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The Rise of Far-Right Hate Groups
20% of US adults say Obama is doing what Hitler did; 14% say he may be the Antichrist.
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Southern Poverty Law Report: Rage on the Right
In 2009 a dramatic resurgence in the Patriot movement and its paramilitary wing, the militias, began.
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A Look at the Templeton Foundation
Some philosophers and scientists have serious reservations about TF’s use of its vast fortune to promote its goals.
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Nick Cohen on UCL and Islamism
A culture that prides itself on anti-bigotry becomes feeble when it confronts bigots in the black robes of clerical reaction.
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Paul Krugman on Right-wing Looniness
We need to have two reasonable, rational parties in this country, not just one.