Thursday, January 8, 2009
Can we take truckloads of soil from Israel and dump it on a platform in the middle of the sea, so as to build an Israel-sized island? We could call it “New Israel.” The Fisk piece below, which collects from memory recent evidence, and the Shawn piece, below that, which diagnoses with terrible accuracy the [...]
Thursday, October 13, 2005
[ "Christian fundamentalists claim religion is associated with lower rates of violence, teen pregnancy and divorce. A new study says they couldn't be more wrong," reads Alternet's header for the story. This piece is thought provoking for theists and atheists alike! --BL ]
October 13, 2005 | AlterNet
by George Monbiot
Are religious societies better than secular ones? It [...]
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26 July 2005 | Washington Post
by Doug Struck
GANANOQUE, Ontario, July 25 — Nine women in white robes knelt on the deck of a cruise boat Monday in religious ceremonies they say will make them the first female Catholic priests and deacons ordained in North America.
The Roman Catholic Church immediately dismissed their claim. In 2002, the [...]
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Jul 13, 2005 | Reuters
by Pascal Fletcher
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez accused Roman Catholic bishops on Wednesday of opposing his left-wing rule and being “out of touch with reality” after they questioned his populist policies.
The firebrand nationalist has clashed publicly in the past with Catholic Church leaders he accuses of siding [...]
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Thursday, October 21, 2004
[ This piece by Mark Roche, dean of the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame, follows up an earlier piece on increases in abortions under Bush. Roche, who condemns abortion, writes:
... many Catholics seem to think that if they are truly religious, they must cast their ballots for Republicans. This [...]
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10 October 2004 | New York Times
by BENEDICT CAREY
In 2001, two researchers and a Columbia University fertility expert published a startling finding in a respected medical journal: women undergoing fertility treatment who had been prayed for by Christian groups were twice as likely to have a successful pregnancy as those who had not.
Three years later, [...]
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Friday, September 24, 2004
Anglican Network Urges Sanctions on Israel: Report
24 Sept. 2004 | IslamOnline.net
London — Inspired by an earlier successful campaign against apartheid in South Africa, a leading international Anglican group has asked sanctions on Israel and a boycott of businesses there to protest the occupation of Palestinian lands, a leading British newspaper reported Friday, September 24.
The call [...]
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Tuesday, September 7, 2004
6 September 2004 | Los Angeles Times
Plan would allow voting to proceed in January but might undermine credibility of the results
by Patrick J. McDonnell
BAGHDAD — Iraq remains on course to hold landmark elections in January, but violence could force authorities to exclude hotspots such as the western city of Fallouja from voting, a top U.S. [...]
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August 30, 2004 | The Guardian
by John Sutherland
One of the surest ways of testing a country’s political temperature is to look at the national bestseller list. The current No 1 on Amazon’s chart, Unfit for Command, in which “Swift Boat veterans speak out against John Kerry”, will draw attention in this country. Formerly No 1, [...]
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[ In this article David Morris points out that
the Didache teaches us that to evaluate whether an individual is pro-life depends on far more than his or her position on abortion;
that
for more than 1500 years the position of the Catholic Church on abortion was very close to that of the U.S. Supreme Court in Roe [...]
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