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September 2018

September 01, 2018

Catholic Church in Australia is far wealthier than it claimed

An investigation, published this week, reveals that the Catholic Church in Australia concealed its massive...

August 2018

August 27, 2018

The standards of the day

Since the Pope’s weekend in Ireland is in the news, including here, I thought it...

August 27, 2018

Thousands rally against Pope's visit to a very different Ireland

When Pope John II came to Ireland in 1979 he was given rock star treatment...

August 26, 2018

Priests who cover up sexual abuse are 'shit' says the Pope

Pope Francis referred to those who cover up abuse in the Catholic Church as 'caca'...

August 18, 2018

Crazed US missionary racially abuses Ugandan hotel workers

Screaming 'You hate Jesus', Jimmy L Taylor, above, went into meltdown in a Kampala hotel,...

August 18, 2018

'Catholic Church must stop ordaining homosexual men'

Daniel Mattson, author of Why I don’t Call Myself Gay: How I Reclaimed My Sexual...

August 16, 2018

New website names Catholic clergy who covered up abuse

A newly-launched website – ComplicitClergy.com – identifies ten American bishops who 'should have known' about...

August 15, 2018

Awful week for the Vatican as more abuse allegations surface

The iter sabbati began with news that in Chile authorities raided the headquarters of the...

August 11, 2018

Church of England priest jailed for 12 years for abusing boys

Canon Terrence Grigg, 84, retired rector of St Mary's Church, Cottingham near Hull, began a...

August 09, 2018

'Catholic Church is woefully incapable of policing itself'

That was the reaction of lawyer Richard Scorer to a report published today about the 'appalling'...

August 04, 2018

Boys removed from 'horrific' Christian camp in Texas

Eight boys, ages 10 to 17, have been removed from the Joshua Home in Bertram,...

August 02, 2018

Come Alive Church pastor gets 18 years for sex offences

Harry Thomas, 75, former pastor at the Come Alive New Testament Church in Medford, New...

July 2018

July 29, 2018

Decision to allow Carey back in the pulpit is to be reviewed

Last year Lord Carey, above, former Archbishop of Canterbury, resigned as honorary assistant bishop in...

July 28, 2018

Clerical abuse: another senior Catholic leaves in disgrace

Cardinal Theodore McCarrick – one of the most prominent members the American Catholic hierarchy – has...

July 27, 2018

Mom objects to abused girl's placement with a gay couple

A Wisconsin mother, Michaela Sousa , above, brutally abused her infant daughter in 2016. The child...

July 26, 2018

North Carolina Baptist Church accused of years of child abuse

The arrest earlier this month of Jonathan Young, 34, a Sunday school teacher charged with...

July 20, 2018

Arrested: wife of Idaho pervert chose prayer over police action

Sarah Kester, 50, a member of the Followers of Christ Church, told police after her...

July 07, 2018

Pressure mounts on Pope to sack convicted archbishop

Anger is mounting in Australia over the refusal of Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson, 67, to...

July 03, 2018

Clerical sex abuse: archbishop gets 12 months' detention

The most senior clergyman in the world to be convicted of concealing child sex abuse,...

June 2018

June 29, 2018

The 'dirty little secret' of the Mormons scrutinised again

Last November Michael Stone, of the Progressive Secular Humanist wrote that 'the aggressive interrogation of...

June 25, 2018

Priest who slapped 'a little Christian' is forced to retire

Father Jacques Lacroix, 89, who was caught on video last week slapping the face of...

June 17, 2018

Christian Psychiatrist Services in Memphis, Tenn, shuts down

Dr Valerie Louise Augustus has been forced to close her office for two months and...

June 08, 2018

Christian couple lose custody case. Jesus was their lawyer.

In one of the weirdest performances ever seen in a court of law, the deranged...

June 06, 2018

Judge hears sadistic Catholic nun confess to child cruelty

High Court judge Lady Smith, above, who is heading the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry, this...

June 02, 2018

Tennessee pastor arrested for attempted rape of a young girl

William E 'Tim' Smith, Jr, pastor at the Tennessee Church of God in Palmer, has...

May 2018

May 31, 2018

Former UK imam jailed for abusing a boy in a mosque

Mohammed Rabani, 61, a former imam at a mosque in Sneinton, Nottinghamshire, today (Thursday) received...

May 25, 2018

Convicted archbishop sparks fury with 'pray for me' letter

Australian Philip Wilson, the Archbishop of Adelaide who was found guilty this week of concealing...

May 24, 2018

'Wonderful' ex-pastor accused of breaking his infant's legs

Matthew Everly, 25, of Bloomington, Illinois, faces 11 counts of child cruelty arising out of...

May 23, 2018

Convicted Adelaide archbishop will leave his post this week

Philip Wilson, above, the Archbishop of Adelaide who had been found guilty of concealing child...

May 18, 2018

Missionary faces lengthy jail sentence for abusing orphans

Christian missionary Daniel Stephen Johnson, 40, above, faces a minimum of 30 years in prison...