Archbishop of Westminster played a leading role in fighting the introduction of gay rights laws in 2006.
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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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Nick Cohen on the Courage of the Godly
Check out the apologists commenting.
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Archbish of Dublin on Archbish of Westminster
Archbishop of Dublin said Archbishop of Westminster’s ‘comments, as reported, have not been helpful.’
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Atheist Offers ‘New Conception of Divine’
‘God is the biosphere’s “fully natural creativity” in which all living beings share in a kind of co-divinity.’
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‘Atheism the Greatest of Evils’
A priest raping a boy in a wheelchair is trivial in comparison.
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‘Religion Makes People Good’ Myth Busted
Retired Catholic archbishop says they didn’t understand that child abuse is a crime.
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Steven Strogatz on Math and the City
A mathematical pattern reveals Manhattan and a mouse to be variations on a single structural theme.
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Catholic Archbishop Praises Abusive Clergy
Archbishop of Westminster says it took ‘courage’ for clergy involved in child abuse to confront their actions.
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Mary Kenny Writes a Callous, Frivolous Piece
She’s known all sorts of priests, but not the abusive kind, fancy that, it takes all kinds, have another drinky.
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‘A Cruel and Wicked System’
Children were slaves who made money for religious orders in mini factories, farms, and laundry services.
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Disgust at Archbishop’s Comment
‘He should say that it is all about the children and the rest of them be damned. There are no excuses for religious orders.’
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Felony Warrant Issued for Colleen Hauser
‘The sooner we find Daniel, the better,’ the sheriff said.
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Even When Wars End, Mass Rape Continues
It has been easier to get men to relinquish their guns than their sense of sexual entitlement.
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Ireland: the Horror of Industrial Schools
Children lived in ‘daily terror’ of being beaten, the long-awaited Commission into Child Abuse report has found.
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The Irish Church Knew Abuse Was ‘Endemic’
Church officials encouraged ritual beatings; inspectors failed to stop chronic beatings, rapes and humiliation.
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Industrial School Victims Seek Justice
‘My mam died but they never told me she died. She died on Christmas Day but they never told me.’
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Many Kinds of Abuse, Physical and Emotional
‘For years we wouldn’t believe that she had tried to get us out, but she made numerous attempts and was told it was impossible.’
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The Catholic Church’s Absolute Power in Ireland
Behind that pious cloud of incense, there lurked the terrorising of destitute, orphaned children.
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Simon Singh and the Battle for Free Speech
The judge and the British Chiropractic association did not take account of the growth of science activism.
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Singh Case Highlights Libel Tourism Dangers
This may be the start of a grass-roots movement to reform the UK’s repressive libel laws.