The Worlds - lite

Over at Raw Story , we learn that for the first time, the pope was interviewed by a woman. Apparently all his previous inteviewers were m...

I love that Amanda Marcotte took the time to create a list of things that men who hate women and troll feminists' blogs can do to impr...

Oddly, I woke up yesterday with a song in my head. It was Dixie Carter singing "How Great Thou Art" (at least I think that's...

DUBLIN — Ireland's Catholic bishops have urged lawmakers to block a government bill that would permit exceptional abortions to pro...

I believe the Roman Catholic church's appalling view of women is the ultimate source of its homophobia. Let's take this step by st...

An outspoken nationalist mayor said the Japanese military's forced prostitution of Asian women before and during World War II was nece...

JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli court has instructed police to stop detaining women for performing religious rituals that ultra-Orthodox J...

You probably know that a Hindu woman died in Ireland because the hospital wouldn't provide an abortion -- even though there was no cha...

Appalling news from Egypt this morning. From the NYT: “A woman needs to be confined within a framework that is controlled by the man o...

A Saudi cleric says even girls who have not yet reached puberty should be covered from head to toe , citing instances of child molestati...

Did you think oppression belonged solely to the Roman Catholic church and Muslims? Not so. Orthodox Jews in NY have their own oppressors. I...

There's not much more to this article than the excerpts I include below. I hope this turns into a big, juicy, the-bishops-are-clearly-...