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Friday 25 July

Today is the
40th Anniversary of
"Humanae Vitae"- a Vatican Radio report

Vatican Radio - News - Emer McCarthy


Listen to Audio





Friday 25 July

'Trapattoni gets stick
as he joins the pilgrims on Croagh Patrick'

Irish Independent - National News - Tom Shiel





Thursday 24 July

'Nothing like a balanced discussion!' ...
Church's attitudes
to homosexuality, women -
Fr Seán Fagan, Gina Menzies

RTÉ Radio One - Today - Myles Dungan


DOWNLOAD COMPLAINT FORM





Wednesday 23 July

Westminster attempts to bypass
Stormont, impose abortion
against will of people

Newstalk - Late Night Live - Declan Carty





Wednesday 23 July

I see 'reason', I hear lies

"The public relations and lobbying industries
were themselves founded on attempts
to pervert rationality and science
in the service of vested interests,"
says New Scientist magazine

New Scientist - Cover Story - David Miller


Documentary - The Century of the Self - BBC - Adam Curtis





Tuesday 22 July

Internet child pornography
on the increase says new report

Newstalk - The Right Hook - Kevin Myers


Irish Independent - Shock rise in internet use of child porn despite curbs - Tom Brady - 23/07/08





Tuesday 22 July

'Educate together' claims
to offer emphasis on peace and cooperation,
and 'parity of esteem'
which they say is lacking
from religious run schools -

Several promotional articles
in mainstream press

Newstalk - The Right Hook - Kevin Myers


Irish Independent - Strong support for Educate Together secondary schools - 23/07/08


Irish Times - Second-level push by Educate Together - Seán Flynn - 23/07/08


Irish Examiner - Parents seek second-level Educate Together school - Niall Murray - 23/07/08





Tuesday 22 July

?sanguinarian vampire? runs
for President of U.S. (on witch,
satanist, ticket! )

Newstalk - Moncrieff - Sean Moncrieff





Tuesday 22 July

Radio presenter
uses Name of Jesus
'for effect'
while interviewing
the minister responsible
for broadcasting standards
EAMON RYAN -
(station repeats incident in self promo!)

Newstalk - Lunchtime - Eamon Keane


DOWNLOAD COMPLAINT FORM





Monday 21 July

'Battle of the Bishops' -
'Anglican church in crisis'

BBC 2 - This World -





Sunday 20 July

Minister for Justice changes name of
'Irish Film Censor's Office' to
'Irish Film Classification Office'

Government - Ministry for Justice - Dermot Ahern


Censor calls 'cut' on moral guardian role - Breda Heffernan - Irish Independent - 7/01/08


Statement on IFCO website - 23/07/08


Comments by David Quinn - Catholic Ireland article - 24/07/08


Who does the film censor think he is? - Alive - September 2006





Sunday 20 July

"You will receive power
when the Holy Spirit comes upon you"
(Acts 1:8).

EWTN World Youth Day coverage with
transcripts of all the addresses

EWTN - World Youth Day -


Pope urges Catholics to reject 'spiritual desert' - The Irish Times - 20/07/08


BBC bias on World Youth Day - 20/07/08


Pope ends World Youth festivities - RTE - 20/07/08


World Youth Day - Vatican Radio


World Youth Day Vatican documents





Friday 18 July

Declan Ganley
interviewed on EWTN

EWTN - The World Over - Raymond Arroyo





Thursday 17 July

'Exploiting sex to
help those exploited by sex!'
American mobile phone provider
asks youth to strip online for charity

Lifesite News - News - Peter J. Smith





Wednesday 16 July

33 year old teacher/ life coach
spends month with Maasai -
experience increases her
desire for marriage and family

BBC 2 - Tribal Wives -


Promo for this programme - 1 min 55 sec - 16/07/08





Sunday 13 July

How will I arise from darkness?
The problem of pain,
and the place to look for solutions -
Fr Benedict Groeschel CFR
talks about his book
'Arise From Darkness'

EWTN - Bookmark - Doug Keck





Friday 11 July

John Bruton
interviewed on EWTN

EWTN - The World Over - Raymond Arroyo





Tuesday 8 July

(Yet) another showing of ITV's
'I Smack and I'm Proud'
9:00PM -
Reviews and comments in 'Lottie's Blog'

Tv3 - I Smack and I'm Proud -


Review #2 - Chris Lowdon - 21/09/06


Statement of NSPCC - 21/09/06





Tuesday 8 July

Guatemalan cardinal concerned about
EU measures to control immigration

CNA - News -





Tuesday 8 July

Anglican Yes to Women Bishops an "Obstacle" --
Vatican's Unity Council Notes Regret at Vote

Zenit - News - Kathleen Naab


Director of Anglican Centre, in Rome, Rev David Richardson - 10/07/2008


Statement by The Vatican Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity - 08/07/2008





Friday 4 July

John Paul II's 'The Jeweller's Shop' -
LIVE performances,
TONIGHT Fri 4 July & 2MORO Sat 5 July ONLY -
Aras Treasa, Clarendon St Dublin 2 -
Admission FREE - 8pm

St Genesius - Theatre - Rachel McKeever





Friday 4 July

TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH - 6:
Vatican Radio drama based on the
Acts of the Apostles and St. Paul's letters,
aired to coincide with the Pauline year

[Themes?: New Age, attempted influence of
political, business and economic interests
within the Church, trying to 'tame' The Holy Spirit]

Vaticna Radio - Drama - Jill Bevilacqua





Tuesday 1 July

BCC reject complaint against
Prime Time programme
about gay adoption
but fail to include most persuasive points
of the complaint in their summary

RTÉ One - Prime Time - Miriam O'Callaghan


Original complaint by Kevin Dolan - 19/03/2008


BCC summary of complaint and response - 20/05/2008


RTÉ not playing fair in gay marriage debate: FMA - 2/03/2008







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