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SWINE ‘flu continues to cough up of stories of barmy goings-on among the faithful. A fortnight ago we were left chortling over a report from Israel about planeload of Israeli rabbis and Jewish ...

A MUST-SEE documentary on BBC2 at 10.30 tonight uncovers the story of how some 30,000 Spanish children were forcibly removed from their parents and given to childless pro-Franco couples – or pu...

CHRISTIAN parents who objected to their children being taught about other religions in a mandatory new Quebec school course have suffered a serious setback with a ruling this week that the teachings d...

The late Ted Kennedy THE decision to stage a “grandiose public funeral celebrating the life of  pro-abortion extremist Senator Ted Kennedy” has caused a rift in the Catholic Church in ...

CHRISTIANS in Maine are hoping that a combination of cash and prayer will overturn the state’s recently enacted gay marriage law. According to this Youtube report, Catholics dug deep into their...

IN 1952 Philomena Lee gave birth to a son in a convent at Roscrea in Country Tipperary, Ireland. After she became pregnant, her family had her “put away” with the nuns.Martin Sixsmith with...

THE Shroud of Turin has been reproduced by an Italian scientist in another attempt to prove that the cloth allegedly bearing an image of Christ’s face is a fake.Some old geezer's face on the...

Peter Brietbart, 21, a contributor to the Freethinker, and a student of politics and philosophy at the University of Sussex where he is chair of the Secular Society, was there to see the Church totall...

GUEST commentary by Edinburgh-based writer and skeptic Steuart Campbell, whose books include The Rise and Fall of Jesus. On Sunday, October 4, 2009, two young girls leaped to their deaths from the Er...

EVER hear of bogong moths? Well, neither had I until earlier this week when I learned from Professor Greg Craven, Vice-Chancellor of the Australian Catholic University, that they are major pest in the...