Category Archives: Religion

The Bible Through The Eyes Of Schoolkids

Over the years a Roman Catholic Nun, who was also a teacher tested her students on the content of The Old and New Testaments. She collected a selection of the questions and answers…and here they are – Nun Grading Papers … Continue reading

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Mattie Stepanek was Just a Little Boy. But We Adults Ought to Pay Attention.

He was an ordinary child who, from the moment he became aware, faced a life-threatening health situation. Continue reading

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Maureen Dowd On A Sabbath Morning

In a moving and heartfelt column in today’s New York Times, Maureen Dowd, a devout Catholic, plumbs the depths of degradation and evil within her own modern Church. She cites the hypocrisy and the contradictions that exist even now, at the heart of her own religious community. Continue reading

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Israel: An Apartheid State? Is Ehud Barak an Anti-Semite?

Ehud Barak, Israel’s Defence Minister is he too an anti-Semite? Continue reading

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The Middle East: End of History, or Beginning of a New Era (pt.2)

Here and there we catch glimpses of light that shine through the cracks in the walls of bigotry and hatred we have slowly built up, quite often not even knowing why we built such walls in the first place. Peace in the Middle East is still possible. Continue reading

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