Roman Catholic Priests must be “real” men

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

Calendario Romano 2009. The calendar can be bought here 10% of proceeds go to The Food Chain a registered charity supported by peripheries. The Roman Catholic Church has issued guidance for future priests to have psychological test aiming at preventing “tragic situations” (read “sexual abuse by priest”) caused by what the Church ...

Clash of the Titans: Abstinence vs Condoms

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Ivory Coast Campaign (Click to enlarge) A few days ago Elizabeth Pisani commented on her website on how the Cambodian government caved in to US pressure. US pro-abstinence ideologues were meddling with a recognised efficacious HIV prevention intervention in exchange for economic advantages. This was an interesting post and it fitted with ...

Compassionate democracies

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

In her book The Wisdom of Whores Elizabeth Pisani observes that “Funnily enough, it is often those [governments] that are secure in their popular majority (such as Thatcher in 1986) or those that don't have to worry too much about voters (such as Iran and China) that can afford to ...