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Catholics And Sexual Abuse

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Monks On Greek Island Have Bad Habits

By Helena Smith PATMOS, Greece, May 16, 2000 (TA) — The high life is nothing new to Patmos, the Aegean island where royalty mixes with artists, David Bowie goes on walkabouts and the Aga Khan throws parties for the likes of Richard Gere. Indeed, the holy isle — where St John reputedly wrote the Book […]

Rich And Poor

RICH AWED BY POOR’S ABILITY TO LIVE LIKE THAT “No Way We Could Do It,” Say Leaders of Wealthy Nations Monterrey, Mexico (SatireWire.com) – At a United Nations conference last week to address world poverty, dozens of leaders from the planet’s wealthiest nations concluded they were “totally in awe” of the 1.2 billion people who […]

I Have A Dream

That the day will come where every man, woman & child in our community will be fed. Where they will grow up in a loving home instead of a refuge or a car or a park. Where they will live free of abuse, whether that be physical, emotional, sexual, psychological or spiritual. Where the only […]

The Scourge Of Celibacy

By endowing priests with an aura of discipline and trust, celibacy fosters pedophilia and facilitates coverups By Garry Wills, 3/24/2002 —————————————————————————- —- Garry Wills, an adjunct professor of history at Northwestern University, is the author of the recent Saint Augustine’s Childhood and the forthcoming Why I Am a Catholic. he revelations about Boston’s pedophile priests […]

They Still Don’t Get It

The church’s sexual betrayal The Roman Catholic Church holds as an important doctrine that sexuality, though a gift from God, is fraught with moral danger. There is only one legitimate form of sexual expression-a married heterosexual relationship, always open to the possibility of procreation. So The nature of sex is inescapably bound up with the […]

‘Three Days And Three Nights’ – Doesn’t Add Up!

“J D Leister” wrote in message . > Ok what about the crucifixion. > > Tradition says Good Friday is the day he was crucified > so which part of the day was this done in? > > He was supposed to be dead for 3 days then rose on the > Sunday.. > > […]

Christians Forcibly Repatriated To Vietnam

MONTAGNARD CHRISTIANS FORCIBLY REPATRIATED TO VIETNAM Observers Say 1,000 More Refugees Face the Same Fate Special to Compass Direct PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, March 4 (Compass) — Cambodian authorities forcibly repatriated on March 2 sixty-three predominantly Christian Montagnards from Vietnam who were seeking asylum in Cambodia. Sixty-one refugees from a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees […]

Churches And Child Abuse

From: an Orthodox friendNewsgroups: aus.religion.christian Subject: Re: Speaking of Anglican Lawsuits. > On Tue, 05 Feb 2002 23:20:03 +1100, israel r t <> > wrote: > > > >Judging from what you have posted, child abuse seems to be a wide > >spread problem in church schools. > > > >It is a shame that the […]

Stem Cell Research

8 March 2002 Hon Kevin Andrews Parliament House CANBERRA ACT 2600 Dear Kevin, For your information, here is a copy of a letter we are sending to government MPs: STEM CELL RESEARCH We understand that commercial scientific interests are currently applying great pressure on the federal government to allow them to experiment on, then kill, […]