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Entries Tagged as 'Religion'

Bishops bang their croziers…on the internet

September 25th, 2008 · 3 Comments · LGBT, Queer, Religion, Same Sex Partnerships

Ah those wise Celibate men (or they are supposed to be celibate) were holding their Autumn conference for the last few days and launching a new website yesterday. And in their statement released after their meeting they told us that they were talking about civil partnership. The full text of their thoughts relating to the […]

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26 years ago and the threat still hangs over some

September 10th, 2008 · 10 Comments · Feminism, Irish Politics, Religion

In 1982 Eileen Flynn lost her job. The reason for her dismissal was that she was pregnant, unmarried and the father of her child was a married man. Eileen was a teacher in a convent school in New Ross and the school asked her to resign and said it would given her 3 months pay. […]

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Flustered Cassocks

March 18th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Blogging, Religion

So what did Willie Walsh, Bishop of Killaloe and friend of the opressed ever do to deserve the wrath of Clerical Whispers?? His collusion with the force in general has paid off as well considering that 2 Garda patrol cars and a Garda van were called to Ennis cathedral last week in an attempt to […]

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All Human life is there…

September 7th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Lesbian, LGBT, Queer, Religion, Religious Right Dressed up as research institutes

Thanks to Frank @ Cedar Lounge for letting me know that I’ll be missing Fr. John Harvey’s visit to the RDS Dublin tomorrow to speak at the Human Life International Conference. The talk I’ll be missing whilst doing some very queer shopping checking out all the dykes in Liffey Valley is entitled Homosexuality: Helping the […]

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Surfing habits and the women behind them.

February 21st, 2007 · Comments Off on Surfing habits and the women behind them. · Religion, Social Media

Robert Scoble and others interview the nun who’s in charge of the Vatican website. I don’t know whether to be scared or supportive of the work of Sister Judith Zoebelein. It’s a very interesting interview – Church goes second life and then back to first life and then to the next life probably. She does […]

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