Participation is certainly down over 30 years ago. It's probably up over five years thanks to EU expansion and the influx of Catholic Poles and other Eastern Europeans. Vocations have almost completely dried up and an aging clergy means that it's hard to see the drop in numbers attending mass regula...

Do we really want education to be about need though? Sure, you can get by just fine without knowledge of Shakespeare, evolution, Aristotle and Napoleon, but surely, an education should involve more than moulding an individual into some sort of product to be consumed by industry?

I'm sorry but how exactly do you teach kids biology without teaching them about evolution?

Well yeah, but the devil is in the details. Deciding on the criteria of what constitutes a risk and what is harmful is problematic. Do children have time for relativism?

Congrats Dissident!

Sure a change is as good as a rest isn't it!

My question is, outside of the legal arguments which I am sure are also quite nuanced, how do you feel, personally, or dare I say morally, about a minor playing sex scenes in theater or on film? Should the theater/film compromise artistic integrity, hiring only youthful adult actors to play minor r...

Watson is an idiot. He's always been an idiot, constantly getting himself into trouble. His treatment of his colleagues has been less than admirable (and probably sexist at times). He famously declared that women should be allowed to abort their kids if they it was found that they were gay - though ...

Indeed it did. Cheers.

Yeah, I suspect that it is because the amazon link you posted is really long and the board seems to have stretched in order to keep the link on a single line.

So is the alignment on this page screwed up for anyone else? It's pretty much unreadable for me.