Laws against acts of hatred based on sexual orientation are being tested in the first case being brought to court this week in the UK. The first case involves five men accused of handing out leaflets calling for the death penalty for homosexuals outside a Mosque. Hatred laws have included acts against homosexuals since March ...
The bishop convicted after being found with hundreds of images and videos of child pornography has walked free from an Ottawa court. Raymond Lahey was sentenced to time served and probation. Evidence used against him in court included 588 photographs and 63 videos. Brian Joseph Dunn, the Bishop of Antigonish, a post formerly held by ...
A priest with pixellated face and the Virgin Mary staring aghast at a positive pregnancy test. Is this art imitating life, or is it offensive sensationalism? Banksy’s Cardinal Sin sits amongst 17th Century religious art in Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery. His face is sawn off and replaced with small, square bathroom tiles, creating a pixellated ...
Not planning to have a baby? There’s a pill for that. Not planning to have a baby ever, or to die from ovarian cancer? There’s also a pill for that. The same one, actually. As well as helping you to not become pregnant when you don’t want to be, that pill can also decrease your ...
Women in Québec are being disproportionately affected by laws that are making the province increasingly secular. Two years ago 80 members of the En Route Foundation, a Catholic lay group, gathered in a hall rented from the city and watched an inspirational video. They prayed, celebrated mass and ate a potluck lunch. Sound suspicious? Maybe not to us regular folks ...
Same-sex civil partnership ceremonies will be now be allowed to take place in any church in England and Wales, so long as the church agrees and is happy to do it. Gay marriage is still illegal in the UK, and until now same-sex partnership ceremonies have been purely secular, civil occasions. Whilst it seems very ...
As much as the Catholic Church keeps trying to get out from under the dark cloud of sex scandal that has enveloped it for as long as we can remember, it can’t escape. Christopher Jarvis, hired by Catholic Church officials to “monitor church groups to ensure pedophiles did not gain access to children in the ...
The Catholic Church in Australia issued an apology today for practices of forced adoption during the 50s, 60s and 70s. Young, unwed mothers were forced to give up their children for adoptions. Many were tricked or threatened into doing so. These practices weren’t unveiled until 2000, when many mothers came forward to talk about what ...
This weekend, we witnessed the widespread support of same-sex marriage all around the world as parades took over the streets of Toronto, Sao Paulo and Mexico City. And let’s not forget New York. On Friday, June 24th, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the bill that will (in 30 days) give same-sex couples the right to ...
The Filipino government is once again up for a long and harsh fight against the Catholic church in a new attempt to pass a reproductive health bill that just entered Congress this week. The bill would require the government to provide information on family planning methods for couples about to marry, require all government hospitals ...
So, we’re having this baby. It’s due in a few weeks and we’re trying to get organized with all...
I recently heard about what is claimed to be the rising phenomenon of Japanese men remaining virgins for longer...
Ladders. Patriarchal conspiracy. I’ll explain… This week I climbed a ladder. I was trying to reach a loft space,...
Dear Madame X, My boyfriend needs to look at porn while we have sex. It bothers me because I...
Mrs. Dalloway is yet another feminist classic that I had to grow into. Wrapped up in Woolf’s instantly recognizable...
Last week saw a Big Thing come to our soggy little island. Well, it was a Big Thing for...
Last weekend I was entertaining a guest, you know, the sort I was planning to have lots and lots...
All little girls want to be princesses… right?! It’s bad enough that toy aisles are separated out by what...
