Archive for March 2014

Quakers, (Same-Sex) Marriage and the State

Posted on: 28/03/14 | Posted By: Rachel Muers | Category: Blog

In 1663 Charles and Mary Appleby, a Quaker couple from Liskeard, Cornwall, were summoned and questioned by the mayor and eventually imprisoned in Launceston gaol. Their misdemeanour, according to the fellow Quaker who recorded the incident, was that “they would not be married according to the laws of this Kingdom”; their simple marriage ceremony had…
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Pope Francis, One Year On

Posted on: 09/03/14 | Posted By: Tina Beattie | Category: Blog

After a year in office, Pope Francis’s popularity shows no sign of waning. A weekly Italian fanzine called Il Mio Papa (‘My Pope’) has just been launched by Silvio Berlusconi’s publishing company, though Francis says he finds such adulation ‘offensive’. His response to a journalist’s question about gays – ‘who am I to judge?’ –…
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