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Anarchism and Religion
The popular stereotype of anarchists' relationship to religion is
that we are all priest-killers and church-burners. This is, as is
usually the case with mainstream representations of anarchism, almost
completely false.
Religion & belief
We believe that people should be empowered to be in control of their
own destinies. That means opposing the power of the churches.
Anarchism & Religion
WSM position paper
Church power in the south...
[1991]
The Catholic church in Ireland has always been massively supported by
the State and allowed a huge say in the running of the country. This
article will attempt to cover the facts of church power in Ireland
and the long history of State support beginning hundreds of years be
fore the establishment of the 26 county state\
Catholic church seeks state aid for
child abuse! [1993]
THE CATHOLIC Church is looking for payment in return for sexually
abusing children! Right up to the 1960s young children from Catholic
orphanages in Britain and the six counties were shipped out to
Australia. There the boys, some as young as eight years, were used as
almost slave labour by Catholic farmers and the Church itself
Child molesters & Churchmen
[1995]
When the case of Father Brendan Smyth, the paedophile priest, came
out, the whole country was revolted. Here was an unrepentant child
molester, carrying out sexual assaults on hundreds of children over a
period of forty years, with the full knowledge of the Catholic
Church.
Divorce Victory: Clerical Power
Weakened [1996]
In the past few years, issues concerning the family and the place of
women have been at the centre of Irish politics - in part because
Catholic church thinking has long dominated these areas of life in
Ireland. Things first began to change for the better in the early
1970s when women began to fight back against Church rule.
Employment Equality Bill
[1997]
The Employment Equality Bill effectively gives schools and hospitals
which are controlled by either of the churches the right to
discriminate on the basis of marital status, family/parental status,
sexual orientation, race, religion or membership of the Traveller
Community
Church sells off The Secret
Garden [1997]
There has been a Community Training Workshop in the grounds of All
Hallows College for the past fifteen years. The workshop takes most
of its trainees from the prisons and the probation service. Their
landlord (the Catholic Church) has sold the land the workshop is on
to a private housing developer