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...
View ArticlePriest 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,...
View ArticleSome 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...
View ArticleAlmost 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...
View ArticleCatholic 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleWomen 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...
View ArticleUpdate 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...
View ArticleAPA 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...
View ArticleSandra 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!
View ArticlePope 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...
View ArticleCorvino Responds To Providence College
Regarding the administration cancelling his lecture on the topic of same-sex marriage.
View ArticleNotre 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...
View ArticleSchliesser 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...
View ArticleNotre 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...
View ArticleAt 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleIslamophobic 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...
View ArticlePhilosopher 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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