Category Archives: Current Affairs

German Catholic Bishops vs. Pope Francis: The “Liberal” Opposition

[NOTE: Last weekend we posted a report on the deeply conservative Polish Catholic church, which is locked in a mutually vampiric embrace with the very rightwing Polish government, and losing young Poles as one result. In the country next door, Germany has another large cohort of bishops, but of a very different stripe: in Catholic … Continue reading German Catholic Bishops vs. Pope Francis: The “Liberal” Opposition

Read more →

Gwynne Dyer on The Climate Summit-Maybe A Bit of Hope?

As after every climate summit, the air is filled with shouts of rage and despair.

What was agreed was unclear and inadequate and what was left undecided or simply ignored was vast and terrifying. For example, they still haven’t managed to agree that the world needs to stop burning fossil fuels.

Read more →