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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Incompetent Nurse Fired Over Church Advice
Gave religious instead of medical advice; Christian Legal Centre considering a lawsuit.
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Halachically Sound In Vitro Fertilization
You need a Puah supervisor, and a Puanite box, and be sure to observe the nidda rules.
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France: Scientology on Trial for Organized Fraud
‘The church, which is fighting the charges, denies that any mental manipulation took place.’
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Ireland: Congregations Say No Renegotiation
This despite increasing public pressure and a call by Cardinal Seán Brady that the deal should be revisited.
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The Pope Forgives Molested Children
‘What kind of a message is the pope sending today’s children? That it’s okay to seduce priests?’
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Oliver Kamm on the Right-wing ‘Left’
One pseudo-left view sees militant Islam almost as idiosyncratic liberation theology.
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Church of England Abused Children Too
‘Today’ found evidence that CofE removed files from the archive despite assurances that it did not.
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Concentration Camps Run by Holy People
Rome knew what was happening; Mother Ireland knew too. The church and the state ran a cosy cartel.
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She Forced Her Daughters to Marry
So now she’s been sentenced to prison: the first case where someone has been convicted of forced marriage.
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Brothers Fought the Inquiry Every Step of the Way
Commission took almost a decade mainly because the Christian Brothers tried to stop the truth coming out.
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Désiré Munyaneza Found Guilty of War Crimes
And crimes against humanity and genocide for leading a gang in the 1994 Rwandan massacre.
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CFI Anti-superstition Campaign
Seminar in Accra, Ghana May 28: ‘Witchcraft and its impact on Development.’
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Serbia Joins Ireland in Tough Love Treatment
Drug addicts filmed being beaten at rehab centre affiliated to the Orthodox Church.
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Max Dunbar on Sympathy for the Priests
The subtext appears to be: ‘Okay, some children were raped, but what about those poor old bishops?’
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Jesus is Horrified by Irish Child Abuse Report
His heart goes out to them…
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Nick Cohen on the Sacred and the Profane
Islington council has sacked a school head for watching porn in his office. Is the council praising his ‘courage’?
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Bill Donohue on ‘Hysteria over Irish Clergy Abuse’
Contemptible stuff.
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Ireland: No Legal Basis to Amend Abuse Claim
Former Labour leader protested the ‘supine surrender’ by Bertie Ahern’s government to the religious orders.
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The Savage Reality of Ireland’s Darkest Days
There is a nightmarish quality to this systemic malice, reminiscent of authoritarian regimes.