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January 2019

January 01, 2019

Pastor and former police chaplain arrested for child sex abuse

HERE we go again ... it seems that not a day passes without reports cropping...

January 01, 2019

Priest masturbated boy in car; claimed semen was ‘spilled soda’

At an abuse hearing in New York City, James Grein, above, revealed that he had...

December 2018

December 22, 2018

‘Turn yourselves in and face justice,’ Pope tells abusive priests

In a pre-Christmas address yesterday, Pope Francis urged priests who have sexually abused minors to...

December 16, 2018

Media who reported on Pell’s conviction could face ‘jail time’

An Australian probe is considering whether news outlets outside of the country can be prosecuted...

December 12, 2018

Prominent Vatican official, Cardinal Pell, is found guilty of sex abuse

At the end of a trial believed to have cost him millions, the Vatican’s third...

December 09, 2018

Renowned Brazilian healer accused of sexually abusing women

Joao Teixeira de Faria, who claims that the spirits of more than 30 doctors work...

December 06, 2018

Filipino altar boys were allegedly abused by a US Catholic priest

The US Bureau of Immigration is seeking the deportation of a Roman Catholic priest accused...

December 01, 2018

S. Carolina church hit with an abuse lawsuit after volunteer’s arrest

A lawsuit brought against NewSpring Church in North Charleston this week alleges that it failed...

November 2018

November 29, 2018

Priest who threatened to rape a woman and a cop is now fully cured

Investigations into abusive Catholic priests in Iowa have have brought to light a bizarre episode...

November 22, 2018

South Korean church leader Lee Jae-rock jailed for sexual offences

The head of the Manmin Central Church today began a 15-year jail sentence after being...

November 17, 2018

Class action against RC Church alleges racketeering and corruption

The Vatican and American bishops have been hit by a class action lawsuit which sites ...

November 10, 2018

Catholic clergy sex abuse could be on the rise again. Gays get blamed.

Father D Paul Sullins, above, a Catholic priest and retired Catholic University of America sociology...

November 03, 2018

Clerical abuse in New Orleans: Archbishop asks for forgiveness

A total of 57 Roman Catholic priests are to be named as 'credibly accused' abusers...

October 2018

October 29, 2018

Tuam mass grave scandal: nuns should not fund exhumation costs

Just when you thought that Catholic League President Bill Donohue could sink no lower, along...

October 26, 2018

Vicar abused teen who wanted to deepen her faith in Christianity

When a 'vulnerable' teenage girl in Lancashire, UK, developed an interest in the church and...

October 25, 2018

Boy molested by priest told to ‘seek forgiveness’ – for being abused!

Former Catholic priest David Poulson, 64, this week pleaded guilty to sex crimes involving children...

October 24, 2018

Victims of evil nuns in Ireland are to be exhumed and reburied

When I posted a piece this week about the religious press urging anti-abortionists to go...

October 10, 2018

‘Prayer camps’ in Ghana shackle people with mental health problems

Human Rights Watch has been keeping close tabs on the way people in Ghana who...

October 05, 2018

South Park skewers Catholic abuse cover-ups. Bill Donohue goes postal

On Wednesday a new episode of Comedy Central's South Park tackled the issue of clerical...

October 02, 2018

New Polish film about Catholic abuse riles the religious right

What could possibly have inspired a movie about drunken priests and clerical paedophila? True facts...

September 2018

September 30, 2018

Vicious New Mexico cult leader sentenced to 72 years in jail

Deborah Green called herself the "The General" and strutted around in paramilitary gear, filling people's...

September 25, 2018

Catholic cardinal says ‘many people no longer believe in us’

Not a week goes by without the toxicity of the Roman Catholic Church getting media...

September 24, 2018

More shocking facts emerge from Pennsylvania abuse probe

More shocking revelations are emerging from the Pennsylvania grand jury investigation into Catholic Church abuse....

September 18, 2018

Commies planted paedophiles in the Roman Catholic Church

Iben Thranholm, a right-wing religious extremist from Denmark, is convinced that sexual abuse scandals engulfing...

September 17, 2018

Sadistic cult leader under investigation in South Korea

A doomsday cult – the Grace Road Church headed by Shin Ok-ju, above – set...

September 16, 2018

Victims of Buddhist abuse voice concerns to Dalai Lama

Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, reportedly had to endure a 'complicated' meeting in Holland...

September 12, 2018

Bleak picture of Catholic abuse revealed in new German probe

A sexual abuse commission funded by the German Bishops' Conference found that 3,677 mostly male...

September 10, 2018

Teen dies after being forced into a 40-day religious fast

Titilayno A Omosebi, 48, and her husband Kehinde S Omosebi, 49, are facing criminal charges...

September 08, 2018

Yet another probe into Catholic cruelty is to be launched in US

Vermont Attorney General T J Donovan, above, announced yesterday (Friday) that officials in Burlington plan...

September 07, 2018

NY probe into Catholic sex abuse blasted by Bill Donohue

News that the New York Attorney General’s office, headed by Barbara Underwood, has issued subpoenas...