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Femen: Ukraine’s Topless Warriors

Interesting piece on today’s Atlantic front page about these bold feminist activists based in Ukraine: Founded in Kiev in 2008 to protest the country’s burgeoning sex industry (“Ukraine is not a...

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Priest blames women for femicide

Unfortunately, this is not a story from The Onion. A parish priest in Italy said that women need to engage in some “healthy self-criticism” when it comes to the issue of femicide, and in so doing,...

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Some days, I just can’t.

I do not know how to describe how disturbed, how heartbroken, how frustrated, and most of all, how angry I am at the moment.   (Trigger warning for the full story, and especially the video itself. ) A...

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Almost laughing.

From the BBC: A gay priest has said an announcement from the Church of England over gay bishops “will be laughed at by the majority” of the country. The announcement, from the Church’s House of...

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Catholic Hospital Argues Fetuses Are Not Persons

A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against St. Thomas More Hospital in Colorado. Lori Stodghill, who was pregnant with twins, died from a heart-attack shortly after she had been admitted. Her...

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The new pope on women in politics?

Someone please tell me this didn’t really happen. (Seriously, if anyone knows more, please do say so in the comments.) Women are naturally unfit for political office (…) The natural order and facts...

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Women Against FEMEN

Check out a collection of pictures here.  Or browse the twitter hashtags #MuslimahPride and #Femen.  And here’s an article providing some context.   All organized religions seem to get themselves mixed...

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Update on Free Amina

Article here.  (NSFW warning) When asked about the Topless Jihad protest, Amina Tyler said, ” I am against. Everyone will think that I encouraged their actions. They have insulted all Muslims...

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APA Scheduling

For at least the last 7 years, the Pacific APA meeting has fallen over the Easter holiday (and other associated holy days for Christians). For at least the last couple of years, the Pacific APA has...

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Al-Saji on Veiling

An awesome-looking symposium over on SGRP.

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Sandra Harding Interviewed

Over at the Ms. Magazine blog, on secularism, philosophy science, and religion (with a bonus one-minute introduction to standpoint theory). Go check it out!

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Pope thinks the RC church has become obsessed with sex

Not quite his words. According to the NY Times, “Pope Francis, in the first extensive interview of his six-month-old papacy, said that the Roman Catholic Church had grown “obsessed” with preaching...

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Corvino Responds To Providence College

Regarding the administration cancelling his lecture on the topic of same-sex marriage. 

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Notre Dame refiles its HHS lawsuit

The University of Notre Dame announced yesterday that it would be refiling its lawsuit against the HHS mandate (dismissed last spring) regarding contraceptive health care coverage. University...

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Schliesser on de Gournay: sexism is “serious blasphemy”

Yesterday, at his Digressions & Impressions blog, Eric Schliesser posted a (second) lovely discussion of 17th century philosopher Marie de Gournay and her account of the Church’s role in the...

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Notre Dame appeals to SCOTUS over ACA

The University of Notre Dame has appealed to the Supreme Court, requesting that it require the lower courts reconsider its case against the HHS mandate in the light of the Hobby Lobby decision. Notre...

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At last a really big blow to creationism

From the Pope The theories of evolution and the Big Bang are real and God is not “a magician with a magic wand”, Pope Francis has declared. Speaking at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the Pope made...

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The Pope on the complementarity of man and woman – or how times aren’t really...

From a status update by Mary Anne Case: Mere weeks after its Synod on the Family, the Vatican is sponsoring, through the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a much less publicized International...

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Islamophobic ads vs. Ms. Marvel

A while back the Freedom Defense Initiative started taking out Islamophobic ads on buses around San Francisco (the original ads are not pictured; they are offensive enough I didn’t think it was worth...

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Philosopher Christia Mercer discusses Obama’s comments on Christianity

A lot of valuable historical context. Obama’s comments about Christianity were much more reserved than they could have been. In the winter of 2015, we should not lose sight of the vast and gruesome...

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