Derek Scally: The best Catholics in the World. The Irish, the Church and the End of a Special Relationship
CANADA: With the discovery of children's graves in Canada, the Canadians are arguably challenging the Irish being seen as "the world's best Catholics". Children from First Nations were outright stolen, imprisoned in isolation, forced into a foreign culture, a foreign language, subjected to sexual abuse and general neglect.
WOMEN: On the occasion of Women's Day on March 8, MODERN TIMES is here to reflect on the changing times, an excerpt from Eivind Tjønneland's new book «Abnormal» women – Henrik Ibsen and the decadence. Ibsen's dramas were described in 1893 as written for hysterical women, male masochists and the mentally retarded.
MIDDLE EAST: What significance does it have that the authorities have cut cultural support for a number of Norwegian actors working internationally? For example, Kirkelig Kulturverksted i Midtøsten?