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The Supreme Court asked questions about when Congress can make it a crime to tell a lie that does not defraud or defame.

Kenny rebuked the Vatican last year over their  refusal to cooperate in the inquiry into child sexual abuse in the diocese of  Cloyne in Cork.

Lynn drew up a list of abusive priests, Bevilacqua and Molloy ordered the list destroyed, Bevilacqua secretly kept the list in his safe.

“It is the government’s fundamental job to reflect society and to shape the future, not stay silent where it has the power to act and change things for the better.”

I had felt a great sense of freedom—a liberation from fear—as I read Rushdie’s words out loud in public for what I believed was the first time in the country of his birth.

The law now allows businesses operating out of Church property such as hotels and restaurants not to pay property tax as long as the building also has a chapel or similar.

He said that in the book. Whence the surprise?

After eight weeks, the women in the single-sex classes were no more risk averse than men.

He was walking down the street with his sister when three men shouted homophobic abuse at him; then they beat him up.

The illiteracy of the current generation of atheists; atheism a militant creed; childish certainties; fulminating about religion; but so has science.

The assault on Dawkins illustrates the extent to which defenders of religion still dominate our press and the brutal retaliation exacted on clever opponents of faith.

You’re doing it too much even for us, say 14 Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu and Sikh organizations.

Muslim guy attacks “zombie Mohammed” in atheist parade, is arrested and tried; judge dismisses case, blames victim for being so offensive.

“Al-Shabaab rebels have abducted children from their homes and schools to fight, for rape, and for forced marriage,” said HRW deputy children’s rights director.

Calls the proposal to change the status of marriage ”one of the greatest political power grabs in history.” Rich comeing from a theocrat.

A new website devoted to reviewing ebooks about science, with Carl Zimmer and a team of leading new-media science journalists.

I’m tho thorry, I forgot.

“Puffed-up, self-regarding, vain, prickly and militant, he displays exactly the character traits that could do with some Christian mellowing.”

Prominent atheist Richard Dawkins has been hit by fresh scandal today after it emerged that his ancestors were single-celled organisms who metabolised sulphur.

The Nobel Peace laureate and pro-democracy activist received the threat in a short text message sent to her mobile phone demanding that she repent or face death.