New Book Unholy Silence by ex-catholic priest

Father Kevin Lee has published a book "Unholy Silence"

He says this is about his time in the church in Australia and all the coverups and abuse that he has seen, I haven't read it as yet,so I have no idea about the content, but it seems timely. He says he has a few unkind words for Cardinal Pell, and is publishing the book offshore. I image there are quite a few people with unkind words for Pell, but I don't think making the book only available via the web and published outside Australia will be much help

I am a bit concerned about his claim he forced the creation of a Royal Commission in to the Abuse of Children, because as far as I can tell it was mainly the work recently of Detective Peter Fox coming forward to allege his investigations have been stymied by senior police and politicians.

In one interview a few days ago he quotes:-

"Even in the dormitory I lived in, it was nicknamed 'The AIDS Wing' because there was a belief that a lot of the people living there were going to get AIDS because they were just so promiscuous," he said.

The book is available at  http://unholysilence.com/  and he blogs at  http://fatherkevinlee.blogspot.com.au


“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”
― Steven Weinberg

Creationism in Queensland Schools

        Chrys Stevenson is one of those wonderful writers who can write exactly what I want to say. Yes I know, I'm a bit wibbly with my own scribblings, and I have lots of draft posts that I never finish, but what she has written about politicians ignoring creationism in schools is very very good, and more people need to see it.

Thanks to the wonders of VPNs I actually got to see some of this episode of QandA, but not this actual part that's being refered to.

Please read:-

Chrys wonders why Tanya Pliberseck who  was asked about creationism being taught in the classroom seemed surprised.


Because we all really know Dinosaurs and humans lived together...right?

Thanks to Uli Resident for the picture

Thus the creationist's favourite question "What is the use of half an eye?" Actually, this is a lightweight question, a doddle to answer. Half an eye is just 1 per cent better than 49 per cent of an eye..." - Richard Dawkins

Shockwave for Pope

I would like to throw my wimple into the ring to be considered for the newly opened role of Pontifex Maximus.


 


My policies for this election are :-

• To turn over all paedophile priest and those who covered up oer to the police.
• To turn over all of the people in official capacity who helped the cover up to continue
• Open up the Vatican Bank to expose all the money laundering
• Equality for Gay people, oh, and women as well.
• Open up the archives in all countries to track the baby snatching, tax evasions, child abuse
• Free Condoms for everyone.
• Stop the farce that the Vatican is an independent state.
• Retrospectively revoke all indulgences
• Release the hidden picture of  the 13th Labour of Hercules 
• Lots of other decent humane stuff...

Sell all the gold, treasures and the billions of dollars worth of goods and invest it in heath, science and research for the benefit of the poor. This would actually be used to help the poor, not to exploit them and keep them in a "mild" form of poverty that the Catholic Church now prefers to produce a constant supply of believers, such as in the Philippines 

Finally...dissolve the Church, and tell everyone it's just a load of rubbish to keep you all in line for the last 2000 years...now..lets build some spaceships.

While I am not Catholic, I believe this is a "Good Thing", and this can only make it all better, until I dissolve it all..of course.

It’s an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don’t try to make it posthumous. — Gloria Steinem

Justice for the Magdalanes on Tuesday ?

It is hopeful the Irish Government will finally publish a  report " Inter-Departmental Committee Investigating State Involvement with the Magdalen Laundries" into the Magdalene laundries this Tuesday afternoon, February 5th.

This is a long delayed report, and I'm sure it won't be nice reading.

The 10 laundries were operated by the Sisters of Mercy, the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity, the Sisters of Charity and the Good Shepherd Sisters.
Those operated by the Sisters of Mercy were at Galway and Dún Laoghaire; by the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity at Drumcondra and Seán MacDermott Street in Dublin.
The Sisters of Charity operated laundries at Donnybrook, Dublin, and Cork.
Good Shepherd Sisters ran laundries at Limerick, Cork, Waterford and New Ross.



To read more about those wanting justice for those imprisoned in Irish workhouses your best resource is here  http://www.magdalenelaundries.com/


"Many survivors refuse to talk about what they went through, but I've never been ashamed to have been in one of those places. The shame is not mine; the church should be ashamed. They say now they're sorry - what they mean is, sorry they were found out." - Mary Norris

Single Frame Story Challenge 23 Flight

Single Frame Stories, is telling a story in a single frame.

Each Saturday (or Sunday) we’ll offer a new word or phrase for a prompt. Participants will each create a Single Frame Story based on the prompt of the week, consisting of a single image with up to 140 optional characters of text. The image can be a photo, screen shot, drawing or painting. The text can be integrated into the image or used as a caption or title.

This week, the prompt is "Flight" My week by week number is a bit messed up now...so it's now number 23.

Last week  it was "Found", you can see the entries here: 

It's nearly my 6th Rezday, it doesn't seem so long ago I was on Help Island and just a few weeks old.

People come and go, and I get rather sad that some friends have gone forever.

Sometimes we celebrate with the Poppins Jump

In theory you jump off a high place, and the Umbrella should open just before you hit the ground. Doesn't always work, and I rediscovered this about 40 seconds after this picture 

You can go see other jump pictures here

I was actually feeling much more inspired this week to do a better picture...but..well..these things happen

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.  - Amelia Earhart

Single Frame Stories Number 22 Found

Single Frame Stories, is telling a story in a single frame.

Each Saturday (or Sunday) we’ll offer a new word or phrase for a prompt. Participants will each create a Single Frame Story based on the prompt of the week, consisting of a single image with up to 140 optional characters of text. The image can be a photo, screen shot, drawing or painting. The text can be integrated into the image or used as a caption or title.

This week, the prompt is "Found" My week by week number is a bit messed up now...so it's now number 22.

Last week  it was "Unplugged", you can see the entries here: 

This time inspiration was a bit quicker, I had a few idea for Unplugged but they were either not G rated or the SL Marketplace came up empty.

I have been after a personal 404 page for some time, because...well..because these were big in the 2000s and I'm just catching up. Actually, Blogger just updated the ability to add a 404 page only a few months ago.

 

Click here to see it in action

 Science Officer Dagger:  Computer, what is the nature of the universe?

Computer: The Universe is a slowly shrinking rectangle currently 1837.24 km across

 - Star Trek: The Virtual Voyages, Episode 34 "What little avatars are made of" 

Single frame Story Challenge Number 21 - Unplugged

Single Frame Stories, is telling a story in a single frame.

Each Saturday (or Sunday) we’ll offer a new word or phrase for a prompt. Participants will each create a Single Frame Story based on the prompt of the week, consisting of a single image with up to 140 optional characters of text. The image can be a photo, screen shot, drawing or painting. The text can be integrated into the image or used as a caption or title.

This week, the prompt is "Unplugged" My week by week number is a bit messed up now...so it's now number 21.

Last week or two ago it was "Time", you can see the entries here: 

 Something being "Natural" is certainly no guarantee of "better".


“Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.” ― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic