Twitter has suspended the account of a Canadian feminist after she criticized a transgender activist and posted comments such as “Women aren’t men.” 

The woman, Meghan Murphy, says she does not identify politically with either the Left or the Right, although she says the Right is more open to a free exchange of ideas. 

“I think it is …. very important that we engage with those we may disagree with on various issues, and don’t think it serves us to ignore, mock, or dismiss people because they don’t share our exact political ideology,” Murphy wrote in a column for FeministCurrent. 

But Murphy apparently won’t be engaging in an exchange of ideas on Twitter, which initially locked her out of her account in August for criticizing a man who identifies as a woman. She was told she had violated Twitter’s “rules against hateful conduct.”

She was allowed back into her account after deleting the Tweets but then was locked out for 12 hours after posting this Tweet: “Hi @Twitter, I’m a journalist. Am I no longer permitted to report facts on your platform?” She deleted it. 

In mid-November, she again was locked out due to Tweets from October. One said, “Women aren’t men,” and another asked, “How are transwomen not men? What is the difference between a man and a transwoman?”

She deleted the Tweet but then ranted on Twitter, “This is f—ing…

The head of an exploration institute that searches the world for biblical relics says the Ark of the Covenant and the Ten Commandment tablets may be resting in a church in Ethiopia. 

Bob Cornuke, president of the Bible Archaeology Search and Exploration (BASE) Institute, wrote in a blog post that a recent investigation led him to Ethiopia, where tradition says the Ark of the Covenant — and the Ten Commandments that it housed — were taken following events described in the Old Testament.  

The Ark allegedly is housed at St. Mary’s of Zion Church in Axum, Ethiopia, where a “Guardian of the Ark” spends his entire life protecting it. No one else is allowed to see it. 

“This man, reportedly, lives his entire life inside a fenced-off area surrounding St. Mary’s of Zion,” Cornuke wrote in the blog. “He will not leave this fenced-off compound until he dies — when he will be replaced by the next Guardian of the Ark. In the chapel of the church, 30 robes from 30 previous guardians are on display — and every one of those 30 professed that the object they protected was the true Ark of the Covenant.”

Cornuke isn’t the first person to investigate the church’s claims. Smithsonian Magazine conducted its own investigation more than a decade ago. But Cornuke’s newest blog has been quoted in newspapers and websites worldwide. 

The Ark was the subject of the…

Pope Francis told Father Fernando Prado during an interview for his book The Strength of Vocation, that homosexuality among clergy is a “serious matter” that “worries” him. 

According to the BBC, the pope labeled homosexuality a fad and called it “fashionable.” Francis also urged members of the clergy to maintain and practice their vow of celibacy. 

In excerpts of the interview published by Corriere della Sera, Saturday, the pontiff said that the Church must be “demanding” during the selection process for priesthood candidates. 

He said, “The question of homosexuality is a very serious one” and those whose responsibility it is to train priests, he continued, have to make sure the candidates are “humanly and emotionally mature” before they are ordained.

He continued, “For this reason, the Church urges that persons with this rooted tendency not be accepted into ministry or consecrated life.”

The BBC reports that this principle also applies to women who want to be nuns.

 Francis said, “In our societies, it even seems homosexuality is fashionable. And this mentality, in some way, also influences the life of the Church.”

Francis stressed, however, that there is “no room for this” in the lives of priests and nuns.

This is not to say that Francis is completely against homosexuality.

In 2013, the head of the Catholic Church noted that…