FEATURES AND PUBLISHED ARTICLES
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Irish Convents were an Experiment in Manlessness
Now that the Frankenstein tendency has created human sperm in a laboratory, the great prediction is that men will soon be redundant...
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Is it Irresponsible to Have More Than Two Children?
why I think it is ridiculous that a growing number of experts now preach that it is “irresponsible” to have more than two children...
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“The Best Thing I Ever Did.”
It was one of the best things I ever did. And, as time goes by, I am ever more grateful for having achieved it....
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When Gay Lifestyles were Considered Superior...
Down the years, some writers and thinkers have suggested that far from homosexuality being equal to heterosexuality, a gay lifestyle is actually superior to a straight one...
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Paisley: Mellowed by Age – and "Mammy"?
Oldie of the Year 2008 – Rev. Ian Paisley, Leader of the Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland, and, at 82, oldest sitting member of the House of Commons. He was first Minister of the Northern Ireland Assembly until March of this year...
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Portrait of an Irish Feminist, deceased
June Levine, who died recently, felt driven to feminism because she had almost gone mad as an enclosed wife, mother and housewife in a small town in Canada during the 1950s...
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Confessions of a soldier for Hitler.
Henry Metalmann is a widower aged 80. He is a retired railway worker and lives in Godalming, Surrey, where he acts as a voluntary gardener for Charterhouse School. He was born in Hamburg and served in Hitler’s Wehrmacht on the Russian front....
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What’s Happened to Men?
A strange thing has happened to men over the course of my lifetime...
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Theory and Experience – Reassessing Humanae Vitae
I was recently asked to give a re-assessment of a document first published forty years ago, which made a great splash at the time...
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Cancer is not a ‘Battle’
A cancer specialist friend – she has been an oncology consultant for some years now – said to me irritably: “I do wish to heaven that people would stop referring to cancer as a ‘battle’...
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My Risk-Filled Childhood
It now seems that risks – even dangers – in childhood are good for children. There is a growing body of expertise claiming that a worrying aspect of modern childhood is parental – and social – over-protection...
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Lady Thatcher and Alzheimer’s
Opinion is divided as to whether Carol Thatcher, daughter of Margaret and the late Denis, should have revealed, in her autobiography, that her mother now has dementia...
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