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November 2021

November 29, 2021

Abuse survivor who helped topple Cardinal Law dies aged 69

ALTHOUGH he worked diligently for years to expose predatory clergy within the Catholic Church, and...

November 27, 2021

Altar boy abuse is an ‘old Spanish custom’ priest told victims

WHEN Robert Friscic, above, was being molested by a Catholic priest from the age of...

November 18, 2021

Italy sees a surge of people demanding to be de-baptised

AROUND ten years ago a campaign by the Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics –...

October 2021

October 27, 2021

Bishop facing abuse lawsuits blamed for sacking a gay teacher

GAY New York music teacher Matthew LaBanca, above left, has blamed Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio,...

October 08, 2021

Only secular law can bring justice to French victims of clerical abuse

AN inquiry commissioned by the Catholic Church into clerical abuse in France has just concluded...

September 2021

September 17, 2021

Priest accused of buying drugs & funding sex parties with church funds

ITALIAN priest Francesco Spagnesi, above, has been placed under house a arrest by police in...

September 12, 2021

Will a gay Catholic chaplain who died on 9/11 ever be made a saint?

"Victim 0001" of the Twin Towers attack 20 years ago – a New York fire...

August 2021

August 19, 2021

Brazilian bishop who buffed his baton on camera is forced to resign

WHATEVER you call it – paddling the pink canoe or coddling the cudgel – masturbation...

July 2021

July 21, 2021

RCC sex scandal investigator resigns over use of a gay hook-up app

THE resignation yesterday (Tuesday) of Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill, General Secretary of the US Conference of...

July 01, 2021

Catholic priest ‘cured’ gay seminarians … by having sex with them

FOR years it's been an open secret in France that Msgr Tony Anatrella, above, in...

June 2021

June 24, 2021

Bodies of 751 people found in graves at a Canadian Catholic school

JUST weeks after the remains of 215 children were found in a mass grave at...

June 11, 2021

Catholics ‘oppose practices that disconnect people from reality’

IN 2016 Medical News Today carried this intriguing headline: Religious experience activates same brain circuits...

June 04, 2021

Catholic abuse scandals: Church is at ‘a dead end’ says cardinal

GERMANY'S Cardinal Reinhard Marx, above, today (Friday) offered to resign over the Catholic Church’s 'catastrophic'...

May 2021

May 30, 2021

Op-ed: From Tuam to Kamloops

WE'VE seen this story before, all too many times. A mass grave containing the remains...

April 2021

April 27, 2021

Spain: RCC named ‘an accomplice in sexual violence against children’

HUMAN rights legislation in Spain continues to progress at an impressive pace, much to the...

April 10, 2021

Catholic Church stunned by trans woman yearning to be a nun

A FEW years back a rollicking musical – Nunsense A-men! – crossed the pond from...

April 07, 2021

In a blow to Catholic influence, Italy scraps film censorship

BACK in 1949, Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti thought it was a good idea to...

March 2021

March 18, 2021

Despite Christian & right-wing opposition Spain approves euthanasia

LAST December we reported that Spain's Health Minister, Salvador Illa, above, strongly defended a vote...

March 05, 2021

Catholic bishops condemn Polish court’s rainbow virgin verdict

A Polish court has been accused of giving the green light to anti-Catholic sentiment by...

February 2021

February 04, 2021

Bishop had to take a sabbatical after reading a ‘gory’ abuse report

AFTER reading a report about the sexual abuse suffered by orphans at boarding houses run...

January 2021

January 25, 2021

‘Church has changed’ says archbishop after abuse victim gets $2.45-m

AFTER agreeing to pay out a record $2.5-million to an altar boy who was raped...

December 2020

December 18, 2020

Priests behaving badly: a Friday round-up

TOP of the list of crimes committed mainly by Catholic priests is Manuel La Rosa-Lopez,...

November 2020

November 10, 2020

Clerical abuse: RCC again shows that it can’t handle the problem

DESPITE being castigated in a damning report on clerical abuse, the head of the Catholic...

October 2020

October 15, 2020

Violent sexual abuse in the Vatican: two priests put on trial

CATHOLIC priest Gabriele Martinelli, above, accused of repeatedly raping a pupil at a pre-seminary, as...

October 14, 2020

‘Blessed’ teen on track to be patron saint of the Internet

A SCRAP of an Italian teenager's T-shirt that allegedly cured a Brazilian boy of a...

October 14, 2020

Seventh Day Adventists have a tithing problem. Will they survive?

LAST year Adventist Church treasurer Juan Prestol-Puesán, above, gave credit to Heaven's Treasurer for a...

September 2020

September 26, 2020

Atheist Nobel Prize-winner won’t share an honour with a bishop

A DECISION by members of the Lower Silesian Regional Council in Poland to award honorary...

September 25, 2020

Saint-creating cardinal resigns. He himself, apparently, is no saint.

ITALIAN Cardinal Angelo Becciu, above, Prefect of the Congregation of the Cause of the Saints...

September 09, 2020

Aboriginal ceremony in a Catholic church branded ‘blasphemous’

INCENSE gets burned in many Christian rituals. Incomprehensible words are babbled and the 'blood' and...

September 08, 2020

New Queensland law compels priests to report abuse or face jail

AT THE beginning of the year, Brisbane's Catholic Archbishop Mark Coleridge, above, railed against proposed new laws...