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July 2018

July 16, 2018

'Strip Mother Teresa of Indian honour,' says BJP politician

Subramanian Swamy, above, a senior Bharatiya Janata Party MP who has attacked Mother Teresa for...

July 15, 2018

Court rules against Catholic fostering agency's homophobia

Reggie Shuford, above, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, has welcomed...

July 08, 2018

Woman faces jail for stealing cash from a Catholic church

A Wisconsin woman, Deborah Marcellus, 63, inset, faces a lengthy jail sentence for stealing more...

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 05, 2018

Catholic priest tells mourners 'get the hell out of my church'

Father Michael Briese, pastor of St Mary’s Parish in Newport, Maryland, has been forced 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,...

July 02, 2018

Priest faces investigation over botched St George restoration

A Catholic priest in Navarre, northern Spain, has been accused of negligence for allowing a...

June 2018

June 27, 2018

Protesters devise a plan to sabotage Pope's Ireland visit

Organisers of Pope Francis's visit to Ireland in August were delighted this week by a...

June 26, 2018

Ex-Irish President says infant baptisms violate human rights

Mary McAleese, Ireland’s President from 1997 to 2011 and an outspoken critic of the Catholic...

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 24, 2018

Vatican diplomat Carlo Capella jailed for child porn offences

At the conclusion the first such trial of its kind in the Vatican Monsignor Carlo...

June 20, 2018

Trouble ahead for Pope's World Families gathering in Ireland

The World Meeting of Families congress, scheduled to take place in Dublin in August with...

June 15, 2018

Scottish MSP: 'Catholics are being treated with contempt'

James Kelly, above, a Labour member of the Scottish parliament, has accused the government of ‘treating...

June 15, 2018

Out with the priests: US School Board vote upsets Christians

Fairfax County School Board in Virginia yesterday voted to remove 'clergy' from a list of...

June 14, 2018

Anti-abortion US writer wants Catholics to boycott Irish goods

John Clark, above, an American writer and father of nine, last week lamented the result...

June 11, 2018

Jesus statue 'too Catholic' for a Baptist Church, and has to go

A hand-carved, 7-foot statue has been displayed outside the front entrance of Red Bank Baptist...

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

Spain's new atheist PM wants religion kept out of schools

Pedro Sánchez, an atheist to the core, today became the first Spanish Prime Minister to...

May 2018

May 31, 2018

Argentine Culture Minister in hot water for eating Jesus cake

More than 26,000 people have signed a petition calling for sacking of the Culture Minister...

May 30, 2018

Oregon church hit with $2.3-million lawsuit for homophobia

The Holy Rosary Church in Portland is being sued by an events company that was...

May 27, 2018

A landslide!

Amnesty UK on the facts about abortion in Ireland before the vote to repeal the...

May 26, 2018

Ireland snubs Catholic bishops and votes for abortion reform

In a March statement, Ireland's Catholic bishops asked people of faith to 'pray earnestly' that...

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

Tory tit Jacob Rees-Mogg falls victim to 'bigotry' in the BBC

I've always regarded Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg as a bit of a tit – and...

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 22, 2018

Pretty-in-pink cardinal claims homophobia is a Marxist hoax

It's somewhat ironic that, shortly after I posted an item earlier today about the homophobia...

May 21, 2018

Did the Pope just 'blow a hole into Catholic moral theology'?

When I read numerous reports at the weekend that Pope Francis had told a gay...

May 15, 2018

Yet another Christian lunatic is awarded a top American post

President Trump's administration, infested by a truly terrifying array of Christian fanatics, has added yet...

May 13, 2018

Row breaks out among Irish priests over abortion vote

Dublin-based Father Terence Crotty, above, has hit out at a group of Catholic priests who...

May 11, 2018

Faith schools: Catholics and secularists criticise new plans

The Government has abandoned plans to lift the 50 per cap on faith admissions in...