I HAVE been deluged by emails over the last day or so by readers enraged over ITV’s cowardly decision to cut Aussie comedian Tim Minchin out of the Jonathan Ross Show. ITV network’s director of television Peter Fincham apparently got cold feet over a song Minchin penned for the show in which he compared Jesus [...]
ARTHUR Skinner, a member of a splinter Catholic outfit in New Zealand, is unrepentant over his slashing of a billboard depicting a shocked-looking Virgin Mary clutching a positive pregnancy test. The scissor-wielding lunatic – of the Catholic Action Group – removed a section of the poster at the weekend … then took part in a [...]
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A DOCUMENTARY scheduled to be screened on RTE One tonight features Irish Catholic priests complaining they have the hump with Catholics of Convenience using the Church simply for hatches, matches and despatches. In the Would You Believe? documentary, the Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, urges the rising numbers of “a la carte” Catholics to “have [...]
RIOT police and guard-dog patrols were called out yesterday in Paris to safeguard one of city’s most prestigious theatres when it became the latest target in a wave of Catholic protests across France against so-called “blasphemous” plays. According to this report, the head of the Théâtre du Rond-Point on the Champs-Elysées complained of death threats [...]
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A TOTAL of 85 priests are said to have abused children across all the dioceses in Ireland between 1975 and the present– and the Bishop of Raphoe, Philip Boyce has apologised for “poor judgements” in managing priests accused of “horrific acts of abuse”. Yet bizarrely, the same bishop is said in this report to have [...]
I AM outraged! The BBC yesterday carried a report that a Benetton poster depicting Pope Ratzinger kissing a top Egyptian imam had been pulled after complaints from the Vatican. It’s not the pulling of the ad that annoyed me so much as the fact that the lily-livered Beeb chose not to reproduce the poster. Instead [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
