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In Passing:At the Heart of Freedom

At the very heart of freedom is freedom of religion – and at the very heart of religious freedom is freedom of conscience. The Irish Government has just published a piece of draft legislation which places a time bomb in this...
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April 2012
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In passing: Heart of darkness

“Excluding any known wishes of the patient or family to the contrary, a decision to preserve the life of a patient in a state of permanent unconsciousness based on respect for life itself is morally no more sound than a decis...
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In passing: All at sea with marriage à-la-mode

Marriage devalued I can’t but help thinking that while the whole boring topic of same-sex marriage rages on and our fellow human beings throw insults at each other across the divide, we are letting the human race slide down t...
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In Passing: the spirit of the Maccabees

Echoes of the first Graeco-Roman persecution The history of the Jewish people tells the story of what is regarded as the first religious persecution of the Graeco-Roman world. This is the account of the ruthless, brutal but ult...
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In passing: Distorted images of the real world

In the film The Matrix we explore the threat to our humanity by forces seeking to create a perfect world. It is a world in which men and women have been distorted beyond recognition into characters in a computer programme devoi...
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