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I will start by saying that having been born and brought up as a Roman Catholic, I have a strong aversion to abortion whilst accepting that there may well be cases where Doctors might consider it an appropriate “therapy”. But that said, if life is sacrosanct then mealy mouthed descriptions of exactly when an embryo becomes “real” do rather leave me cold.

The perception of ‘exception’ fades into insignificance when in the UK there are 200,000 abortions a year which apparently represents 20% of all pregnancies resulting in a “termination”, yet another mealy mouthed description. However, having made my position clear, I also think that it is a major mistake to present the arguments against abortion in a typical ‘Pro-Life’ fashion, that will never work in this society people need a broader base upon which to form an opinion.

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For sheer arrogance and nonsense, it would be hard to beat this editorial in the Independent last Monday morning: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-a-few-words-that-could-prove-a-revolutionary-moment-2140330.html

It had to have a response and it is sad I’m away for a few days because I’m sure that there will be lots of flack from other readers. However, N.B. Having returned from my travels, there was only one respondent and that of little comprehension, I couldn’t work out quite what they were trying to communicate in response to my comments but thought that in the end, they had ‘personal issues’ which seemingly are as yet, unresolved.

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It is both amusing if rather sad also that one only need put “Pope” somewhere in a headline to bring out a lot of lickspittle spite from those who are anti theist by default or those who consider themselves “far too intellectually smart”, no different whether in the reader’s columns of the Telegraph, Independent or Guardian.

I suppose my conclusion on these things is quite simple, the Pope must be doing something right to attract such mindless bile because the opposite of Love is not Hate, it is indifference.

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The aftermath of the Papal Visit is quite interesting on several levels and especially given the ‘trepidation’ that preceded it: Would the crowds turnout ? Would he be subject to constant and abusive protests from the “Protest the Pope” campaign ?

In the end whether just Catholics and the curious, massive crowds greeted him everywhere he went and the umbrella protest group, failed miserably in whatever aims, if any, they had and the ‘why’ might be worth examining, less to say “Ha, ha losers” but rather more to understand what it might indicate about the mood of the UK today.

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A news story on the BBC caught my attention concerning a “Gay Catholic Mass”: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11218791

With the upcoming visit of the Pope, it set me thinking around the issues concerning “Faith”, my own childhood and because I spent about 3 years as a doorman at a Gay bar, the position of Catholic Gays and specifically the English Catholic Dimension. Whilst to outsiders, I am sure that the Catholic Church seems both universal and monolithic, the reality is that the Church is highly diverse and the difference between nations and continents, can be quite marked.

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There is no place for God in theories on the creation of the Universe, the physicist and mathematician Professor Stephen Hawking has said: “It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the Universe going.”

One suspects that with a new book to push, being controversial is a way of attracting attention so: “Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist.” All quite amusing and regardless of which side of the “God Debate” you are on.

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I have remarked before that to be a Catholic in the UK is to know for certain that there are a surprising number of people in this Country with an underlying and incipient hostility to the Catholic Church under any and all circumstances.

It breaks out quite regularly over abortion, adoption agencies and most recently, over Priestly sexual abuse of children in their care. If somehow the current Pope can be blamed in anyway, so much the better for these sad people.

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In common with most of the British Press reacting to the Pope visiting the UK in September and in his letter to the British Bishops, expressing his fears over British anti-discrimination laws that have already led to Catholic Adoption Agencies closing down or severing their links with the Catholic Church.

Of course and even in the Independent, the Anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish vote were much in evidence, the Pro-Faggot Lobby was out in force and just for the total intolerance and bigotry, the  Readers comments are worth a browse:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/anger-after-pope-slams-unjust-uk-equality-laws-1886589.html

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Early last Saturday morning I called the Ambulance and my Mother was taken into Weston Hospital. It was an “odd call” in the sense that there was not any one specific ailment to point to like say a heart attack. Possibly she had Flu, certainly a leg infection that was very painful plus she has the most awful pressure sore on her bottom. In fact it turned out that she had three separate infections but none responded to treatment.

I visited her and spoke to her on Sunday morning when she was a gibberish truth to tell but as I looked at her lying in her bed, I was taken straight back to a Hospital in Wandsworth in the late 1970′s where her Mother was just prior to her death, exact same look. When I visited again later that afternoon, she was very deeply asleep although she was apparently pretty sparky that evening when my eldest Son, his wife and my Granddaughter visited her.

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I have always found little to distinguish between the sheer bestiality of both Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Russia towards human beings. From this as a young man I used to joke about people being Communist but with Fascist tendencies which was to say, these two apparent extremes are really the same.

I believe that right across the globe, change for the better will come and will sweep away the Socialist scourge that we have seen in Europe and most especially in the UK where under New Labour we have seen the the combination of a Government of control freaks who have also managed to be totally incompetent and corrupt at the same time as failing to control anything.

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