Sex education will help gay children

"As a gay child, and in common with many gay children, I was terrified for most of my school life. My earliest sexual encounters – which all occurred before the age of consent (21 at that time) – were unsafe and I constantly felt that I could somehow be "in trouble" for...

Belief and Charity, Rough Times Ahead

We humans are both physical and spiritual. Ideally these should function happily in harmony. Often they don't. This war waged within is eloquently described by many religious greats through the ages, the apostle Paul in Romans 7:23 ("another law at work in my members ......

Irish schools to tackle homophobia

"Irish secondary schools have been given a guide to help them support their lesbian, gay and bisexual students after research showed that four out of five teachers witnessed verbal homophobic abuse but did not know how to handle it. "Homophobia is still a huge problem in...

Catholic bank owned share in pill makers

"A Roman Catholic bank in Germany has apologised after admitting it bought stocks in defence, tobacco and birth control companies. Der Spiegel newspaper discovered the bank had invested... 160,000 euros in American birth control pill maker Wyeth. "Ok, I'm biased against the...

Ireland braces itself for another report on clerical child abuse

"A report into clerical child abuse in Dublin released later today will "shock and horrify" the whole of Ireland, a leading figure in the Catholic church has admitted."I confess that I didn't know that we were expecting another report. And this one, it's predicted, will cause...