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Crazed Bat Flapping About O'Connell Street

Anthony McIntyre ✒ Caught on camera!By fortunate coincidence rather than design, a post featured on TPQ this morning from Right Wing Watch. It highlighted some US religious fraudster who, because she was unable to swindle people out of their right to vote whatever way they might choose, manufactured the fallacious cover story: “God chose me for a reason. I didn’t lose. I won.” She went on to

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Hundred And Sixty Five

Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Let Us At Least Be CuriousGovernment looking at whether Catholic diocese which cancelled visit by gay author broke equalityArgentinian bishop sentenced to prison for sexual abuse

Are Atheists Fully Human Yet?

Michael Nugent ✒ 23 March is international Atheist Day. By coincidence, on this day ten years ago, Jane Donnelly and I were at a conference in Ireland at which two Catholic theologians said that atheists are not fully human.Prof Gavin D’Costa, a Catholic theologian from the University of Bristol, said religious revelation tells us what being fully human is, and atheists are not fully formed.Dr

Spain Finally Approves First Probe Into Child Abuse By Catholic Priests

Church And State ✒ On 10 March, the Spanish parliament voted to set up a commission to conduct the country’s first official investigation into sexual abuse within the Catholic Church. The motion was passed by an overwhelming majority, with only the far-right party Vox opposing the historic investigation.The commission will examine “the execrable personal acts committed against defenceless

NSS Welcomes Equality Protections For NI Teachers

National Secular Society ✒ Legislation banning religious discrimination against teachers in schools has unanimously passed the Northern Ireland Legislative Assembly, and is expected to come into force in the next two years.The Fair Employment (School Teachers) Bill ends an exemption to the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998. The FETO bans discrimination on the grounds of

God's Woman Came Last

Right Wing Watch ✒ Bianca Gracia Claims Those Who ‘Stole’ Her Texas State Senate Seat Are ‘Gonna Have to Deal With God’.Kyle Mantyla Bianca Gracia, a right-wing conspiracy theorist who served as president of Latinos For Trump, recently ran for a seat in the Texas state Senate because, she claimed, God had called her to take her “rightful place” in the state capitol and “make the devil run.” So

A Morning Thought @ 1380

Wise Up, Billy Hutchinson!

Brandon Sullivan & Winnie Woods  ✒ The Unionist Political Class Betrayed Loyalism – Same As It Ever Was, Same As It Ever Will Be. Billy Hutchinson has an article out on loyalist blogger Jamie Bryson’s site. In it, Hutchinson explores the clumsy Bryson soundbites that have become ubiquitous of late: the NI Protocol was a result of “threats of violence” from republicans. It is worth reproducing

Black Prods ✑ My Part In Their Conservation

Michael Praetorius ✒  Long overdue is a bit of recognition for the discreetly stalwart service rendered by we Catholics who, for whatever reason, have ended up living with a Protestant (not the same one, mind you). As I've said before, Jean’s a Protestant.She is, for example, and to give just one instance of what we have to put up with, very disrespectful towards the Blessed Virgin. When I listed