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Posted in Faith, Human Rights, Humanity, Morality, Relationships, Religion on Jun 1st, 2008
It’s been a bad week for women, and therefore a bad week for humanity too. (”So what’s new?” some of you may be asking.)
Doubtless there are more atrocious stories than the ones below (for example, accounts of rape and mutilation and oppression in far distant countries), but the two which penetrated my radar were [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Isolation, Morality, Religion on May 12th, 2008
In Structural and Moral Failure I first wrote about the scandal of sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic church.
Although during his recent visit to America the pope repeatedly expressed shame and remorse for the church’s role in the disgrace and met with some of its victims, the willingness of the Catholic church to deliver its [...]
Posted in Faith, Humanity, Language, Philosophy, Religion on May 9th, 2008
It’s official. You have to show me more deep respect. The Roman Catholic Archbishop has said so!
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor called for more understanding and appreciation between believers and non-believers, urging Christians to treat atheists and agnostics with “deep esteem”. In a lecture given at Westminster Cathedral, which comes after a spate of [...]
As the Pope visits America, I thought Matthew Harwood’s article was so good, and so important, I quote it in full.
A Prayer for the Prey
Over the centuries many dubious miracles have been claimed on behalf of the power of prayer. But Pope Benedict XVI, who arrived in the United States today for his inaugural visit, [...]
According to a recent article in Political Gateway, one of the fundamental tenets of Roman Catholicism is looking like it might be crumbling round the edges as far as the ‘faithful’ in the pews are concerned.
One of the dogmas of Catholicism that separates it from Protestantism is to do with intermediaries. The issue centres [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Humor, Humour, Religion on Mar 9th, 2008
I’m grateful to Freethinker for this posting which seemed too important to pass by:
THE Roman Catholic church in the United States paid out £306 million in 2007 to victims of sex abuse involving members of the clergy – an increase 54 percent over the previous year, and the largest sum ever paid in a single [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Law, Religion on Mar 4th, 2008
Less than a month after the Archbishop of Canterbury caused some consternation in the UK by suggesting that the adoption of certain aspects of sharia law was unavoidable, a US court judge made a ruling which seems to imply that in some cases accommodation with Roman Catholic canon law should be considered.
In 2004, Dennis Riccitelli, [...]
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 [...]
Regular readers of this blog will be aware that I have occasionally been fairly scathing about certain aspects of the Roman Catholic church. I simply find it mind-blowingly incomprehensible that in the twenty-first century, intelligent adults are still promoting the alleged miraculous power of dead people or of dead people’s clothes or of other [...]
Posted in Faith, Human Rights, Humanity, Law, Religion on Feb 12th, 2008
Whatever you call it - heart, soul, mind - it is sacred to you, influenced by outsiders, yes, but controlled only by you. They can only reach it if you allow them to. It is yours and yours alone. You alone have the final say. Yours is what makes you, you: [...]
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