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Posted in Human Rights, Humanity, Law, Religion, Society on Nov 4th, 2010
Geoffrey Roberston’s book is both compelling and shocking. I finished reading it about a fortnight ago, but because the content was so disturbing and complex, it has taken me some time to let the material settle and for me to be able to begin to write about it.
Terry Eagleton’s review in The Guardian best [...]
Posted in Government, Health, Human Rights, Morality, Religion on Feb 9th, 2010
Here’s something. Imagine you live in a community where you are expected to pay into a fund that is used to meet various needs in the community - the upkeep of roads, salaries for nurses and teachers, and community hospitality, for example. Then it transpires that you are about to receive a visit from a [...]
The relics of St Thérèse of Lisieux, a 19th-century Roman Catholic nun, have arrived in Britain for a month-long tour of England and Wales. A casket containing some of her bodily remains, which were preserved after her death from tuberculosis at 24 in 1897, has arrived in Kent.
For four weeks from 16 September, Thérèse’s hearse [...]
Posted in Humanity, Internet, Morality, Relationships on Aug 4th, 2009
As David Aaronovitch remarked in the Times:
If polo is the most expensive sport in which to participate, then archbishop-baiting must be the cheapest. You don’t even need your own archbishop, but can share one with millions of others. No saddle is required, only a pen. The man in the biretta simply has to offer an [...]
Posted in Government, Human Rights, Law, Morality, Politics, Religion on Mar 27th, 2009
I think I am living in the UK in the twenty first century. I think I am. Sometimes things just seem so absurd that I question my reality. Some things you just couldn’t make up.
Just bear with me. Suppose there were laws about pigs - laws set up to protect the rights of pigs [...]
Posted in Education, Human Rights, Humanity, Morality, Relationships, Religion, Society on Jan 23rd, 2009
Some time ago I wrote about the case of Anna Ciriani (What has sex got to do with it?) who lost her job as teacher in Italy because of her extra curricular activities as an internet porn star. I argued that provided that these activities didn’t interfere with her classroom professionalism and delivery, that she should [...]
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, Morality, Politics, Religion on Sep 25th, 2008
There is a report by Patrick Wintour in today’s Guardian that there are signs that the British Government may, at long last, be ready to tackle the endemic sexism and religious discrimination in the British Constitution. The bar may finally be lifted. Downing Street has drawn up plans to end the 300-year-old exclusion of Roman [...]
Like many Roman Catholics these days, Father Antonio Rungi from Mondragone in Southern Italy, is very concerned about the serious drop in numbers of people who have a ‘vocation’ - those seeking to join the church as priests or nuns. Many monasteries in Italy are dieing because of the lack of new members. It appears [...]
(On the day that I read that a Roman Catholic Church in Toxteth, Liverpool, was about to start using the Tridentine Mass exclusively - services in Latin - again, I was reminded of this parable that I wrote some years ago.)
The mountains were cypress-green and breathtakingly beautiful. Spiros was standing in one of the most [...]
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