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fast to stay in place. This is a victory for common sense and women’s rights: but it’s a victory in a campaign we shouldn’t have to have. Cardinal O’Connor claimed to be terribly concerned about the number of abortions taking place in the UK: but his claims were bogus, since he was not attempting to encourage the widespread availability or use of contraception, nor was he advocating better sex education in Catholic schools and free availability of contraception for boys and girls via the school nurse at Catholic

This might also be seen as an aggressive and confrontational approach. No doubt this title could also have been softened. The title for the George Monbiot article was a play on his Guardian article, Face facts, Cardinal. Our awful rate of abortion is partly your responsibility, where I substituted ‘George Monbiot’ for ‘Cardinal’ (Cormac Murphy-O’Connor) and ‘environmental catastrophe’ for ‘abortion’. George Monbiot was arguing (cogently) that Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O

all the more powerful since right-wing political parties are willing to help it in its quest. In the United Kingdom, the Catholic religion, despite its marginal status (or rather because), is for a long time much more influential and militant. Here is an article

This might also be seen as an aggressive and confrontational approach. No doubt this title could also have been softened. The title for the George Monbiot article was a play on his Guardian article, Face facts, Cardinal. Our awful rate of abortion is partly your responsibility, where I substituted ‘George Monbiot’ for ‘Cardinal’ (Cormac Murphy-O’Connor) and ‘environmental catastrophe’ for ‘abortion’. George Monbiot was arguing (cogently) that Cardinal Cormac

MPs are investigating Catholic Schools to investigate if their approach to education is perhaps a little too driven by the church’s insane, counter-productive and murderous attitude to sex: The move comes after a 66-page circular from the Bishop of Lancaster, Patrick O’Donoghue, instructed Catholic schools in the North-west to stop “safe sex” education and place crucifixes in every classroom.

MPs are investigating Catholic Schools to investigate if their approach to education is perhaps a little too driven by the church’s insane, counter-productive and murderous attitude to sex: The move comes after a 66-page circular from the Bishop of Lancaster, Patrick O’Donoghue, instructed Catholic schools in the North-west to stop “safe sex” education and place crucifixes in every classroom.

t invoke the illuminati was a 1965 Time article) and I really do prefer to have sources. As I can’t have those ones, I’m going to call hypocrisy on these two: Abortion - You want abortion rates to go down? Stop complaining about contraception. Pedophilia - It’s nice to hear some that it really is a bad thing, but when there are official records of ordering coverups and accusations that the pope himself was involved (though in the interests of fairness,

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ve never seen it in the bright day before, only at night or the edges of the day. I have Ariel and her child’s eyes to thank because she is the one who told me it was there. It’s nice to see the moon in the light.] George Monbiot writes in the Guardian today, arguing that the Catholic Church (these people) spreads “misery, disease and death” - by stigmatising contraception, sex education and legal/safe abortion, the real sex-negative / woman-negative brigade are contributing around the world to high

agressive secularism and George Monbiot the environmental campaigner contains a fatal contradiction, a contradiction that is pervasive in the modern, industrial, Enlightened philosophy.] Dear George Monbiot, Last Tuesday’s article in the Guardian, Face facts, Cardinal. Our awful rate of abortion is partly your responsibility, made its central point very well, better far than I have seen it made elsewhere. However there was one telling sentence. Murphy-O’Connor has denounced contraception and abortion many times. That