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Overpopulation: Maybe It’s Time to Offend a Few Folks

My message is clear: I recommend one child per couple to lower the population, avert future famines, and avoid wars over water.

Christian fundamentalists are driving our country into the Dark Ages

America has an infection of anti-intellectualism, that anyone who disagrees with a Christian fundamentalist worldview is an "enemy" of God.

A Crash Course on Papal Infallibility

Swiss Catholic theologian Hans Kung: "It is not possible to solve the problem of contraception until we solve the problem of infallibility."

3 Examples of 20th Century Catholic Church Atrocities

Surprisingly few know that Nazi extermination camps in World War II were by no means the only ones in Europe at the time.

When Did the Catholic Church Decide Priests Should Be Celibate?

The Church was a thousand years old before it definitively took a stand in favor of celibacy in the 12th century at the Second Lateran…

Opus Dei: Neofascism Within the Catholic Church

What we are seeing today in the fight over birth control is a revival of a very old, and very dangerous kind of Catholicism.

Mortal Sins of the Vatican

Is the Vatican willing to sacrifice humanity in its attempt to protect its own power base in the world? This article examines the role of…

The Men Behind The War On Women

A group of men with no real background in law or medicine have quietly influenced major anti-abortion legislation over the past several years.

Shaping Our Genes

Excerpt from Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Christian de Duve's book, "Genetics of Original Sin: The Impact of Natural Selection on the Future of Humanity".

Living in the Anthropocene: Toward a New Global Ethos

A long-held religious and philosophical idea – humans as the masters of planet Earth – has turned into a stark reality.

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