The Methodist Church had claimed that ministers were not ordinary employees but “stewards in the house of God” so employee tribunals have no jurisdiction.… Read the rest

100 or so Roman Catholics gathered to pray in front of the ruined billboard, which had shown Mary gasping in shock as she examined a pregnancy testing kit.… Read the rest

Chrys Stevenson explains why this is a terrible idea.… Read the rest

Told reporters that as president he would abolish courts whose judges make decisions that are out of step with fundamentalist Christian views.… Read the rest

The First Amendment protects Mr. Hawkins’ right to call naturopaths in general quacks, and to call Dr. Maloney in particular a quack for promoting naturopathy.… Read the rest

While emphasizing that he was definitely completely insane, Kim still wondered if he could ever be enough of a lunatic to replace the most unhinged dictator on the planet.… Read the rest

The Justice Minister said the publication of redacted portions of the reprt detailed the Catholic Church’s failure to comply with its own child abuse guidelines.… Read the rest

“Both the closed-hearted scientism of atheist hardliners and the narrow creationism of religious fundamentalists kill our strange and beautiful world by flattening it.”… Read the rest

He was clever, hilarious, generous to his friends, combative, prodigiously energetic and fantastically productive; he could also be a bully.

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Digital Journal talks to Leo Igwe.… Read the rest

Tens of thousands of children have suffered sexual abuse in Dutch Catholic institutions since 1945, a report says.… Read the rest

Hitchens was too much of an enthusiast for life and debate to waste time being pinched and cautious; too engaged in the battle of ideas to worry about others taking his.… Read the rest

Against overwhelming obstacles.… Read the rest

“The bris serves as a shrill reminder that the mother’s control over her son’s well being is incomplete.” So it’s ok to snip off a bit of his penis.… Read the rest

A writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical allusion far wider than anybody I know.… Read the rest

His sobriety was perhaps disguised by the frisky playfulness of his language, the extravagance of his invective, the fearlessness of his risk-taking.… Read the rest

Orwell had hoped that political writing might be one day be transformed into an  art, and if anyone can be said to have accomplished that, it was Hitchens.

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His unworldly fluency never deserted him, his commitment was passionate, and he never deserted his trade. He was the consummate writer, the brilliant friend.… Read the rest

Because she pursued higher education without his permission, police say.… Read the rest

If  you think the hatred of the clerics and the censors and the commissars began after 9/11, you weren’t really paying close attention.… Read the rest