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 ...
Scouts Canada has a decades-old database listing the names of people banned from being a part of the organization due to pedophilia allegations. The organization has a policy forcing them to share any information like this with the police and child protective services. But, a lawyer named Robert Talach is suggesting that they should reopen ...
Is it weird for the chair of discipline at the Ontario College of Teachers to write a book about sexual hijinks at a high school in Toronto? Well, if it is or isn’t, it sure making parents take a closer look at their school administrators. Jacques Tremblay was one of the most important education officials ...
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 Vatican warned Irish Catholic Bishops not to report suspected cases of pedophilia to the police, according to a letter written in 1997. This was in response to the Irish Church Initiative proposed a year earlier that priests work with the police to help identify child predators, following a public outcry about clergy abuse. The ...
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...
