The bodies of hundreds of children are believed to be buried in a mass grave in Lanarkshire, southern Scotland: The children were all residents of a care home run by Catholic nuns. bbc.com/news/uk-41200949
TIL that Talking Heads' David Byrne was born in Scotland but emigrated as a child to Canada and then the USA. Byrne's family left Scotland partly due to his fathers job but also as his parents were in a "mixed marriage". His father Catholic and mother Protestant it had caused family tensions. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dav…
Steve Clarke: I'm not a Fenian, I'm a Catholic from the west of Scotland. Clark today admitted that he couldn’t believe being brought up as Catholic was still an issue within Scottish football and society in general. heraldscotland.com/sport/…
Catholic Church in Scotland promoting gay 'cure' group Courage pinknews.co.uk/2018/12/17…
Abandoned Catholic School from the 60’s we visited today in Cardross, Scotland.
Minor TV personality publicly changes view on independence for Scotland. Poster manages to combine anti-semitism, masonic and catholic conspiracy theories, and equating the SNP with the devil - all in one brief comment. Reassuringly bonkers.
Catholic Church in Scotland promoting gay ‘cure’ group Courage pinknews.co.uk/2018/12/17…
Catholic Church in Scotland Promotes “Conversion Therapy” Resources on Website friendlyatheist.patheos.c…
Interesting game. Savoy going ham. Austria going ham. Scotland going ham. Catholic Prussia.
Scottish couples who chose a humanist wedding are three times less likely to divorce than Roman Catholic marriages and more than two times less likely to divorce than Church of Scotland marriages bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan…
[HWI] What if England and Scotland had remained Catholic?
Thinking of holidaying in the highlands of Scotland?
Think a glen.
British flag on number plates ‘will split Scots’ | Plans to emblazon all new UK number plates with Union flags are provocative and a demonstration of how out of touch Downing Street is with popular opinion in Scotland, the country’s pre-eminent historian has claimed. thetimes.co.uk/article/br…
Fatal explosions in Sri Lanka at Catholic churches, reportedly 20+ dead, 50+ taken to hospital newsfirst.lk/2019/04/21/e…
After Scotland Decisively Rejects Brexit and the Tories in General Election, SNP's Sturgeon Calls for Second Independence Referendum | "Given what I fear the Tory government now has in store for Scotland, that right to choose our own future has never been more important or more urgent." commondreams.org/news/201…
The year is 1200. My wife and I run a small barley farm in rural Scotland and we just found out she’s pregnant. What’s the plan for delivering the baby? Would I know what to do? Do we send her to her mother’s? Is there a doctor in the nearby village?
This question is inspired by Ken Follet’s Pillars of the Earth. There is a scene where a mason delivers his wife’s baby on his own in roughly the same time frame.
SNP equalities campaigner quits, claims party ' hub of transphobia in Scotland' heraldscotland.com/news/1…
"So today, as first minister of Scotland, I am declaring that there is a climate emergency. And Scotland will live up to our responsibility to tackle it." | Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has declared a "climate emergency" in her speech to the SNP conference bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-…
The sentiment in Scotland is one I fully agree with.
UK PM Johnson cannot keep Scotland in union against its will: Sturgeon reuters.com/article/us-br…
Japan score a brilliant team try against Scotland in the Rugby World Cup! v.redd.it/vm3lh9q2ras31
This stone circle that was at the top of a hill in Oban,Scotland
TIL In the 1950s, Catholic Priest Gerald Fitzgerald proposed banishing all sexually predatory priests to a remote island for life en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ger…
Bill Barr’s secularism-bashing Notre Dame speech is far from over -- Barr is a theocracy-peddling Catholic fundamentalist who believes “secularism” is destroying America and that he has every right in his official public speeches to promote his faith as the nation’s patheos.com/blogs/godzook…
Catholic Church in Texas Names Nearly 300 Priests Accused of Sex Abuse - The New York Times nytimes.com/2019/01/31/us…
In a world first, Scotland to roll out free sanitary products for low-income women scotsman.com/news/scotlan…
Catholic priest arrested after 11-year-old girl allegedly records herself being molested: Father Michele Mottola, 59, was arrested in Trentola Ducenta, near Naples, after audio recordings said to be of him and the girl were given to local press. newsweek.com/priest-miche…
Fox News host claimed that Trump's sons stopped doing business deals internationally, only to be proven wrong the following day when Eric Trump touted approval for a new Trump golf resort in Scotland. newsweek.com/fox-news-hos…
Did you know Al Capone had a cousin in Scotland?
They called him the Loch Ness Mobster.
Catholic Church Hides $2 Billion in Assets to Limit Abuse Payouts
What is this translucent golden object we found on an oak branch last week? It moves a little like jelly when the branch is touched and has streaks of orange and small bubbles within. Found in West Scotland if that helps too :-)
Scotland is leading the way in Augmented Reality Product Design - just look at this amazing example v.redd.it/6af3z5ln8sf31
ICE arrested a 41 year old catholic born in Greece who came to the U.S when he was 2, he was deported to Iraq despite the fact he had never been to the country before and spoke no Arabic, he died a week later because he couldn't get any medication for his diabetes politico.com/story/2019/0…
This happened two days ago in the US: students at Kennedy Catholic High School have left their classrooms and are staging a sit-in in their hallways to protest the forced resignation of two LGBT teachers. Strength in numbers.
It's an image so I can't directly post or crosspost to this subreddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/f6qfs6/this_happened_two_days_ago_in_the_us_students_at/
TIL that James McCune Smith, the first African-American doctor, was rejected from all American colleges and had to attend the University of Glasgow in Scotland, where he graduated at the top of his class en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam…
Drew McIntyre: "We have the most difficult accent in the world to understand and I had to adjust it slightly because I was sick of hearing 'what?' for the first four years I was here. I need the world to understand me when I'm champion, raise the title and say, I bloody did it for Scotland." fightful.com/wrestling/dr…
What Joe Biden means for Catholics in America latimes.com/world-nation/…
From Fife in Scotland. He thinks he can take anything so help prove him wrong!
Atheists outnumber practising Catholics in Spain, new figures show euroweeklynews.com/2019/0…
Protesters chant "No Trump, No KKK, No Racist USA" at Trump as he golfs in Scotland thehill.com/homenews/admi…
An aerial view from British Airship R.9 showing ships of the British Royal Navy in anchor. Firth of Forth, Scotland, 1916. [1008 x 853]
The author George R R Martin inspired the wall in the north from Hadrian's wall that was a stone barrier built to separate the Romans and the Picts tribes in Scotland.
The documentary 'Only Don't Tell Anyone' has sparked outrage against the Catholic Church in Poland after being viewed by 18 million people. Secret camera footage of victims confronting priests about their alleged abuse will now result in 30-year jail terms after confessions were caught on tape. bbc.com/news/world-europe…
