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September 2020

September 04, 2020

Catholic diocese paid paltry sums to two poor, black abuse victims

A SURVIVOR of clerical abuse, and now the Mississippi coordinator of the Survivors Network of...

August 2020

August 31, 2020

Catholic bishops want to set up ‘gay cure’ clinics in Poland

THE man pictured above at a huge far-right rally in Poland is a neo-fascist rabble-rouser...

August 29, 2020

Big payout for a woman abused by a ‘popular playboy priest’

A LAWSUIT filed almost four years ago against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kamloops in...

July 2020

July 24, 2020

High school principal ‘procured’ a pupil for disgraced cardinal McCarrick

THE Theodore McCarrick affair in America grows more toxic by the day, prompting the National...

July 20, 2020

RCC triples payout to man abused by J R R Tolkien’s son

A UK man who was sexually abused by the late Fr John Tolkien, above, son...

July 11, 2020

Catholic Church a big winner in US’s huge Covid-19 cash giveaway

COMMENTING on revelations that the US Catholic Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from...

July 09, 2020

Collection plate crisis: RCC wants UK government funding

COVID-19 has put a bloody great dent in the Catholic Church's finances in England. But...

July 06, 2020

Priest’s BLM rant gets him suspended. He’s ‘somewhat surprised’.

TAKING words straight out of Donald Trump's playbook, Indiana RC priest Father Theodore (Ted) Rothrock,...

July 01, 2020

Former Irish President attacks ‘evil’ Catholic Church

IN a podcast interview ahead of last weekend’s Pride celebrations in Ireland, Mary McAleese, above,...

June 2020

June 12, 2020

Priests are failing to put the fear of hell into young people

YOUNG people are deserting the Catholic Church in droves, and the only way to bring...

May 2020

May 29, 2020

Double blow for Catholic Church in Germany

LAST month gloomy church officials in Germany predicted that COVID-19 church lockdowns would put a...

May 03, 2020

Ratzinger’s bio links gay marriage and abortion to the ‘Anti-Christ’

TOMORROW (Monday) sees the release of volume one of an 'authoritive' biography of Pope Emeritus...

May 01, 2020

Cardinal who brown-nosed ‘reptilian’ Trump gets castigated

IN a no-holds-barred attack on Timothy Dolan, above, Archbishop of New York, The National Catholic Reporter...

April 2020

April 27, 2020

Trump’s the best defender of Catholics in the history of the RCC

SAYS who? Well, Trump himself, of course. In a conference call on Saturday aimed at...

April 23, 2020

UK’s National Health Service being turned into an ‘idol’ says priest

DURING a live-streamed Mass today (Thursday) from St Mary’s Shrine in Warrington, England, Catholic priest...

April 11, 2020

Cardinal Pell claims RCC has cut out ‘moral cancer’ of child abuse

IN a letter published today (Saturday) in The Australian Cardinal George Pell, 78, released this...

March 2020

March 29, 2020

Abortion: setbacks for faith groups in N Ireland and N Zealand

JUST days after New Zealand voted to become 'one of the most liberal abortion regimes...

March 19, 2020

More than half of Argentinians don’t think they should fund the RCC

ARGENTINA may have spawned the current Pope, but a new survey shows that only five...

March 11, 2020

Confusion over Communion and Coronavirus is spreading fast

RELIGIOUS leaders, Catholics in particular, are in a state of utter confusion over how Communion...

March 10, 2020

‘Outrageous’ – UK taxpayers are to fund a new Catholic school

HUMANISTS UK has expressed outrage over the fact that the first new Roman Catholic state...

March 05, 2020

Mexican survivors of clerical abuse sceptical over new Vatican probe

ALLEGATIONS of abuse committed by Catholic priests in Mexico have been mounting for years, and...

January 2020

January 25, 2020

US football team allegedly helped Catholic Church cover-up its crimes

THE New Orleans Saints, owned by devout Catholic Gayle Benson, above, are fighting to conceal...

December 2019

December 01, 2019

Catholic Church’s flirtation with paganism continues to haunt it

AND when you have a haunting you need a accomplished exorcist to deal with the...

November 2019

November 08, 2019

Clerical abuse: Catholic cardinal says church was ‘shocked to the core’

The Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols – leader of the Roman Catholic Church in...

October 2019

October 22, 2019

Catholic vandals target Amazonian statues gifted to the Pope

THE bellyaching among conservative Catholics has hardly ceased since Pope Francis, together with Amazonian indigenous...

October 20, 2019

Homophobic bigot Bill Donohue complains about ‘anti-gay bigotry’

I almost fell off my chair today when I read that the Catholic League's deranged...

October 18, 2019

Catholic bishops in Kenya ‘erroneously’ promoted condom use

JACINTA Mutegi, Executive Secretary of the Catholic Health Commission of Kenya, has been accused of...

October 07, 2019

Mafia-busting magistrate brought in to probe Vatican institutions

A TOP Italian anti-Mafia magistrate was brought out of retirement last week to head a...

September 2019

September 18, 2019

Former Catholic priest likely to die in prison for child abuse

ARTHUR Perrault, 81, has been handed a 30-year prison sentence for multiple sexual assaults on...

August 2019

August 23, 2019

World’s oldest living archbishop stands accused of sexual abuse

ARCHBISHOP Bernardino Piñera, 103, the uncle of Chile’s billionaire President Sebastian Piñera, is being investigated by...