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Representatives of the National Secular Society delivered a 28,000-name petition to Downing Street on Thursday, requesting that the cost of the Pope’s trip to Britain be borne by the Church rather than the taxpayer.
The National Secular Society said this week that blasphemy law had been reintroduced by the back door after a Manchester man was convicted at Liverpool Crown Court on Wednesday of causing “religiously aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress”.
An alarming edition of Channel 4’s Dispatches programme this week revealed the extent to which a radical Islamist group has successfully infiltrated the Labour Party in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Joining the push to force religion into the election, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, said this week that politicians are trying to “bully Christianity out of public life.”
Five Richard Dawkins books, signed by the author and dedicated to the "Platitude of the Year 2009 winner" are now being auctioned on eBay in aid of the NSS.
An Irish bishop is asking parishioners to top up the Church’s finances so that it can pay for the abuse cases caused by its priests. Bishop of Ferns Dr Denis Brennan said the diocese has had to pay over €10.5m settling civil actions, paying its lawyers at the Ferns Inquiry, and treating offenders.
The Pope will make a visit to Spain in November to challenge what the Vatican sees as the “rampant secularism” of the Zapatero Government.
When the District of Columbia in the USA announced that it intended to legalise gay marriage, the Catholic Church immediately said that it would withdraw all its welfare services in protest. The Church obviously expected the legislature of DC to capitulate to this blatant blackmail. But it didn’t work, and gay marriage was legalised on Wednesday this week.
Brazil's Catholic Church is suing Columbia Pictures in Hollywood for using what it claims are unauthorized images of Rio's famous giant Christ statue being destroyed in its disaster movie "2012," which was in cinemas last November.
More information is emerging about the Pope’s trip the UK in September. Apparently Vatican officials travelled to Britain last week to stake out the territory.
