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Posted in Government, Human Rights, Isolation, Morality, Religion, Society on Nov 14th, 2008
Just two sour footnotes after the genuine joy and sense of hope that many of us liberals felt after America had the sense to vote in a Democrat for President (especially a black one).
The first sour note comes from a South Carolina Roman Catholic priest who has told his parishioners that they should refrain from [...]
Posted in Government, Human Rights, Religion on May 24th, 2008
Spain is courageously seeking to follow a difficult path of modernization.
The Spanish government has announced plans to secularize the constitution and remove privileges that have been granted uniquely to the Roman Catholic Church.
When the Spanish government was sworn in last April, the Prime Minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero decided to take his oath [...]
Posted in Faith, Government, Health, Human Rights, Morality, Religion on Feb 26th, 2008
Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor, head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, has been criticised by the British Medical Association (BMA) after he dramatically increased pressure on the private Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth, in St John’s Wood, North London, to implement a new code of Roman Catholic ethics. Members of [...]
Posted in Health, Human Rights, Humanity, Isolation, Morality, Relationships, Religion, Television on Jan 14th, 2008
Authority has more authority when it comes soaked in credibility.
If you were learning to drive, you wouldn’t want to be taught by someone with very limited experience of the road - someone who had only trundled up and down a straight piece of tarmac in a very limited and safe environment. You would hope [...]
Posted in Government, Human Rights, Law, Religion on Dec 23rd, 2007
It’s shocking to think that even the ‘respectable’ broadsheet newspapers can tell a blatant lie.
Posted in Health, Human Rights, Law, Morality, Society on Oct 23rd, 2007
This month sees the 40th anniversary of the introduction in the UK of the 1967 Abortion Act. The problem about entering the abortion debate is that often both sides are polarized. At the risk of being seriously understood (and possibly misquoted, even), and at the risk of sounding unsatisfactorily bland or outrageously provocative, the anniversary [...]
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