Masons bring down innocent Catholic church
It gets crazier and crazier every day. Now a Colombian Cardinal tells us what’s what. A senior cardinal defended the Roman Catholic Church’s practice of frequently not reporting sexual abusive priests...
View ArticlePut out an APB for Cardinal Bernard Law
Hitchens gently suggests that the pope should be questioned like anyone else. His apologists have done their best, but their Holy Father seems consistently to have been lenient or negligent with the...
View ArticleThe church is campaigning to block compensation
It is lobbying hard against statute of limitation reform.… Read the rest
View ArticleThe Christian churches are the conscience of our country
Lawrence Lessig notes that the pope told victims of priestly rape in Malta last week that the church “was doing all it could to investigate abuse accusations and find ways to safeguard children in the...
View ArticleThe pope visits Fátima
The pope is telling everyone what to do, again – not that he ever stopped, but still it’s interesting to see that he apparently feels no shyness or hesitation, no doubts about his moral authority, even...
View ArticleThe elites who run the Empire State Building
Bill Donohue is in a huge giant rage again, this time because he ordered the people who manage the Empire State Building to illuminate it with blue and white lights one day in order to celebrate the...
View ArticleAnother bit of postmodernist irony from the Vatican
You have to admire the Vatican for sheer effrontery. Which archbishops did it choose to send on an ‘apostolic visit’ to Ireland to look into the way Catholic priests and nuns have been tormenting Irish...
View ArticleDon’t mess with the Vatican
Okay, I give up – why is the Obama administration siding with the Vatican against people who think it should be accountable for its many crimes? Faced with a number of court cases in the United States...
View ArticleA duel at sunrise
Seriously. Cristina Odone must feel very sure that Richard Dawkins won’t sue her for libel, or she wouldn’t say “Richard Dawkins is responsible for peddling a lot of lies about faith” in her blog at...
View ArticleVatican to clamp down on liberal secular opinion
And how about those fun-loving guys at the Vatican? Vatican investigators to Ireland appointed by Pope Benedict XVI are to clamp down on liberal secular opinion in an intensive drive to re-impose...
View ArticlePut your hands out where I can see them
Belgian authorities heightened pressure on the Roman Catholic Church in a sex-abuse scandal on Thursday, raiding the Belgian church headquarters, the home of a former archbishop and the offices of a...
View ArticleHeads I win tails you lose
The Vatican seems to want to have it both ways. It wants to tell everybody what to do, especially all Catholics, especially especially all priests. It wants to tell everybody what to do about abortion...
View ArticleThe pope’s plans
The pope has plans to fight the good fight against secularization and re-impose Catholic theocracy in developed countries where it has lost a lot of popularity lately. Pope Benedict XVI announced the...
View ArticleThere was an arrogance, an independent and defiant air
Maniacal Catholics are still explaining that the bishop was right. Gerard Nadal even explains that the bishop was right to “push back against a culture of death.” By insisting that a woman should have...
View ArticleRatzinger’s finest hour
Brothers and sisters, join with me once again in reading the holy and most sanctified letter of the bishop of Rome to his beloved members of The Church in Ireland, and see with your own weeping eyes...
View ArticleWhited sepulchre
But hey, then again, why worry about religious privilege and entitlement when the Vatican is busy telling the UN Human Rights Council that people who dispute its vicious homophbia are “attacking” it...
View Article“The corrupt political process in New York State”
The Catholic bishops of New York state are upset. They are displeased about this pesky new same-sex marriage bill. They think it’s most unfair to them, the Catholic bishops of New York state. “The...
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