In April 2010, Newsweek had an article titled “A Woman’s Place Is in the Church” with the subtitle “The cause of the Catholic clergy’s sex-abuse scandal is no mystery: insular groups of men often do bad things. So why not break up the all-male club?” The article was strongly against the male officials of the [...]
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The group was small, but it made its point. Eight Roman Catholic women, as representatives of a half-dozen Catholic reform groups, staged a one-minute demonstration for women’s ordination Tuesday in St Peter’s Square. The purpose was to bring attention to the goal of having women be ordained as priests and they unfurled banners reading “Born [...]
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Newsweek has an article with the online title of “Catholics: Time to Break Up the All-Male Club.” That’s a no-brainer, isn’t it? All but the church officials and the most reactionary members must realize that discriminating against women is not the way to go. Newsweek says this about the molestations by catholic officials and the [...]
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In 1992, based on her song “Nothing Compares to U,” Sinead O’Connor was very popular. Then she appeared on Saturday Night Live and sang a song that was anti-war and pro-human rights. She ended the song by tearing up a photo of Pope John Paul II while saying “We have confidence in the victory [...]
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Tomorrow (March 3) is another historic day for same-sex marriage. Unless something drastic happens, it will be the day that the Washington, D.C., law allowing same-sex marriage goes into effect. Many marriage applications are expected. That means that the Catholic Church has lost its battle to prevent the law from going into effect. As Emily [...]
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Italy is one of the last European countries to make RU486 available. The pill was approved by Italy’s pharmaceutical agency in July, but, because of intense opposition by the Vatican (a Catholic bishop had threatened women who used it, doctors who prescribed it, and those who encouraged its use with excommunication). and the Italian government [...]
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Many feminists hate PETA because of its sexist advertising campaigns. However, as I have written before, I don’t think there is much quarrel with its goal of eliminating abuse of animals. Well, PETA has done it again. See the two ads below with Joanna Krupa (recently of Dancing with the Stars and on the cover [...]
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Well, I thought I was going to stop writing for a while about the Catholic Church’s blatant attempts to force its will on government officials. (For instance, see this and this and this.) Certainly, I thought that I was not going to write any more about the dispute on abortion between Rep. Patrick Kennedy and [...]
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Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin has taken the next step in his escalating war against Patrick Kennedy and abortion. (See my most recent post on Tobin and Kennedy.) According to an interview with Kennedy published today in the Providence Journal, Kennedy says that Tobin “instructed” him not to receive Communion because of his abortion rights stance [...]
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The Catholic bishops have upped the ante in their fight to stop abortion and same-sex marriage. It wasn’t enough for them to threaten the Washington, DC, government with a cut-off in services by church groups if DC went through with its plan to allow same-sex marriage appears. The bishops then put out a “pastoral letter” [...]
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