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Pope completely out of step with Catholics

Posted on September 16, 2010
Several polls this week indicate that the teachings of the Pope are entirely out of step with his supposed followers in Britain.

France votes to ban the burqa

Posted on September 16, 2010
The French parliament gave overwhelming approval on Tuesday to a Bill that will ban Muslim women from covering their faces in public – but the law still faces possible hurdles in the Constitutional Court.

Advertising watchdog revives blasphemy law

Posted on September 16, 2010
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has unilaterally revived the blasphemy law by banning an advertisement because it might be offensive to Christians.

British establishment gladly dons the papal blinkers

Posted on September 15, 2010
The Prime Minister, The Queen and the British press have now donned the blinkers that are necessary to allow them greet the Pope on the terms he wants to be greeted and not as a man who has many questions to answer about his participation in the cover up of heinous crimes against children.

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Why are the police trying to play down the security costs of papal visit?

Posted on September 09, 2010
The National Secular Society has dismissed claims that security costs for the papal visit are likely to be between ?1 million and ?1.5 million as 'total nonsense'.

Archbishop won?t accept that Pope failed in his duty towards abused children

Posted on September 09, 2010
The Catholic Archbishop of Southwark, Peter Smith, has promised to 'pass on' calls by the Protest the Pope campaign for Benedict XVI to 'open the Vatican's secret sex abuse files and hand them over the relevant police authorities worldwide.'

Children being roped in to fill the empty places at pope events ? and transport chaos threat in Glasgow

Posted on September 09, 2010
Reinforcing last week's poll findings of widespread public apathy to the Pope's visit, the Herald revealed this week that there are still 25,000 tickets unsold for the Bellahouston Park mass in Glasgow.

The Pope is guilty ? but he will face no trial

Posted on September 09, 2010
A new book by leading human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson, The Case of the Pope, has been published this week amid a flurry of speculation about whether anyone will try to arrest Ratzinger while he is in the UK.

Why isn?t the BBC giving the Catholic Church a harder time?

Posted on September 09, 2010
Archbishop Vincent Nichols was let off very lightly on BBC1's Andrew Marr programme on Sunday morning. Marr allowed him to spend the first half of the interview preaching and the second half getting away with feeble answers.

The Big Protest the Pope March is coming up ? why you should be there!

Posted on September 09, 2010
The Big Pope-Nope march through London, that is the centrepiece of the Protest the Pope campaign, will take place on Saturday 18 September on the same day that the pope will be preaching in Hyde Park.

Pope Nope T-shirts ? have you got yours?

Posted on September 09, 2010
Everyone needs a 'Pope Nope' t-shirt. It's a clear and simple message to 'His Holiness': Don't come to our country telling us we live in a moral cesspit when you've just flown in from the biggest cesspit of them all. All that in two simple words.

Less than half of Poles want religion in classrooms

Posted on September 09, 2010
Twenty years after religious classes were introduced into Polish schools, following the fall of communism, a new survey has found that less than half of Poland's parents would send their kids to them – if they had the choice.

Poll shows massive indifference to pope?s visit

Posted on September 02, 2010
An new opinion poll published in the Tablet magazine shows a massive indifference to the pope's visit to the UK – with only 25% actively supporting it.

Pope?s visit ? Scottish security arrangements to cost �10 million ? minimum

Posted on September 02, 2010
The Scottish News of the World reported has reported that it had seen 'a secret security blueprint' for the papal visit to Scotland revealing that up to 6,000 police officers from the Strathclyde and the Lothian and Borders forces will be on duty as well as thousands of private security guards that will have to be specially drafted in.

NSS tries to pin down papal visit costs ? but police are stonewalling

Posted on September 02, 2010
Efforts by the National Secular Society to find out how much is to be spent on securing the pope on his visit to the United Kingdom have resulted in a lot of stonewalling and even a refusal to give information.

Capacity crowd for Protest the Pope debate

Posted on September 02, 2010
All seats were taken at Wednesday's debate arranged by the Protest the Pope campaign at Conway Hall. Along with the big audience was a large representation from the media who had come to hear Peter Tatchell and A.C. Grayling defend the motion 'The Pope's visit should not be a state visit' against Catholic journalist Austen Ivereigh and Fr Christopher Jamison from Catholic Voices.

Michael Gove in religious schools rethink

Posted on September 02, 2010
Michael Gove in religious schools rethink In an effort to increase the take-up on his 'free schools' idea, the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, may drop planned restrictions on religious groups being able to take part in the early wave of schools. Mr Gove had introduced the restriction fearing that, otherwise, 'free schools' would become synonymous with 'faith schools' as more and more religious bodies applied for state funding.

BBC confirms itself as Pope?s propaganda arm ? but ITV keeps it in proportion

Posted on September 02, 2010
The BBC has this week announced that it plans saturation coverage of the Pope's visit with twelve and a half hours of pope adulation on BBC1 and BBC2, with Radio 4, Radio 5 Live and other BBC TV, radio and online services adding more hours to the overkill.

Italy proposes to exclude Islam from religion tax benefits

Posted on September 02, 2010
Mosques in Italy will not receive a share of income tax revenue the Italian government allocates to religious organisations each year. Hindu and Buddhist temples, Greek Orthodox churches and Jehovah's Witnesses will be eligible for the funds, according to a bill approved by the Italian cabinet in May and awaiting approval by parliament.

Pope should keep his unpleasant opinions to himself while he is a guest in this country

Posted on August 26, 2010
Archbishop Vincent Nichols, leader of Catholics in England and Wales, has high hopes for the Pope's visit to the UK next month. He even thinks it can stop the secularisation of society by demonstrating that religious faith 'is a gift rather than a problem'.

Radio 4 is choked with religion, but greedy CofE wants even more

Posted on August 26, 2010
The Church of England is continuing to press the BBC to appoint a 'religion editor' to ensure that the Corporation's religious output is what it calls 'a trusted guide for people of faith and those without'.

After the Chesney revelations, Ireland must finally divest itself of the Catholic yoke

Posted on August 26, 2010
Terry Sanderson on the emergence of the truth that the state, the police and the Church colluded in the cover up of Catholic priest Fr. Chesney's involvement in the Claudy bombing of 1972

GCSE and RE ? just what does it all mean?

Posted on August 26, 2010
In the week of the GCSE results frenzy, we are told once more of an increase in the number of students taking GCSE in Religious Studies.

Bangladesh moves to become a secular republic

Posted on August 26, 2010
In a further move towards becoming a secular democracy, rather than an Islamic republic, a Bangladesh court has ruled that people cannot be forced to wear skull caps, veils or other religious clothing in workplaces, schools and colleges.

The Big Debate ? controversial start to the Protest the Pope campaign

Posted on August 26, 2010
Sparks are expected to fly at the first event of the Protest the Pope campaign, a debate on Wednesday at Conway Hall with the resolution: 'The papal visit should not be a state visit'.

Catholic spin doctors try to mislead journalists over mass attendances

Posted on August 26, 2010
As the Pope's visit draws close, journalists are being misled by Catholic PR by being told that mass attendance in England is on the on the increase and has had a significant boost.

The dire consequences of the Vatican ban on contraception

Posted on August 26, 2010
Seven out of ten of the 92 million in the predominantly Roman Catholic country of the Philippines would defy the Church and elect a president who supports birth control. This is the result of an opinion poll by the Manila-based Social Weather Stations.

Now is the time to end ?faith school? transport discrimination

Posted on August 19, 2010
Local authorities around the country are examining their budgets in the light of Government subsidy cuts. One area that is under scrutiny is the discretionary funding of free and subsidised transport for pupils attending 'faith schools.'

The interests of children must come before Catholic dogma

Posted on August 19, 2010
NSS Executive Director Keith Porteous Wood welcomes the news that the Charity Commission will not permit a Catholic adoption agency to discriminate on grounds of sexual orientation.

Stand aside Sharia ? here comes biblical law

Posted on August 19, 2010
Killing witches, adulterers and homosexuals are all legal requirements in the Christian holy book, and now the Scottish Bible Society (SBS – Patron: The Queen) is sending Bibles to Scottish courts telling them that they should take biblical law into account when dispensing justice.

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