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November 2017

November 22, 2017

Catholic school is forced to rethink recently-erected statue

A Catholic school in Adelaide has been forced to cover up a recently erected statue...

November 21, 2017

Robert Mugabe enjoyed God's protection says Catholic priest

Robert Mugabe's chaplain believes that God 'protected' the Zimbabwean dictator during his 37-years rule, which...

November 08, 2017

Virginia's 'chief homophobe' ousted by trangender woman

A significant blow against bigotry occurred yesterday when a devout Catholic, Bob G Marshall, who...

November 02, 2017

Catholic diocese calls 'foul' over petition against bishop

Earlier this month we carried a report that said Catholic priests in Wisconsin were warned...

November 01, 2017

Priest, 96, showed child porn to visitors to his retirement home

Retired New York priest, monsignor Harry Byrne, faces 54 charges of possessing photographs on his...

October 2017

October 31, 2017

In Ireland fewer children are attending Catholic schools

Archbishop Eamon Martin , above, head of the Catholic Church in Ireland, has voiced concern...

October 29, 2017

'Militant secularists are after our kids' says US law professor

Conservative Catholic thinker and Princeton University law professor Robert George claimed in Washington on October...

October 26, 2017

Priest's guidelines on gay funerals branded 'shameful'

The Vicar General of the Madison diocese in Wisconsin, Msgr James R Bartylla, above, recently...

October 24, 2017

Catholic diocese won't allow the word 'rapist' on tombstone

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Joliet in Michigan has come into conflict with a man...

October 23, 2017

Catholics refused public funds for faith-based sex education

It has just come to light that Catholic school superintendents in Alberta, Canada – headed...

October 20, 2017

World Meeting of Families slammed for welcoming gays

Ireland is to host the Catholic Church's 2018 World Meeting of Families next August –...

October 18, 2017

Australian voters give anti-gay marriage bigots a good kicking

Despite a determined push by Australia's anti-gay marriage lobby – and a whopping A$1 million...

October 16, 2017

Jesuit priest slams church over canceled human rights festival

Rev James Martin, above, has waded into a row over the cancellation of a human...

October 14, 2017

Vatican hit by fresh scandals

Indonesian Bishop Hubertus Leteng, above, has resigned following allegations by dozens of priests in the...

October 09, 2017

Catholic seminary head resigns over fatherhood scandal

Father Oscar Turrion, above, head of the Rome seminary of the Legionaries of Christ, is...

October 01, 2017

Jesus Christ! Is this the worst Christian video ever made?

Do you know who Trisha Kay Paytas is? If you do, you're one up on...

September 2017

September 30, 2017

Gagged priest gets his voice back and attacks xenophobia

A few years back priest and journalist Fr Adam Boniecki, above, angered the Catholic Church...

September 30, 2017

Canadian police issue arrest warrant for Vatican diplomat

Ontario lawyer Robert Talach, above, has lashed out at the Vatican, alleging that it swiftly...

September 29, 2017

Catholic Church should have no part in gay marriage debate

Louisa Wall, above, the MP who authored New Zealand's same-sex marriage bill, has slammed the...

September 15, 2017

Seeking publicity in the name of absurd religious sentiments

Gaurav Tyagi, a new contributor to the Freethinker, reflects on the recent row over an...

September 12, 2017

Jesus turns wine into water – Catholics in India are appalled

An amusing ad for Australian meat was attacked today by the the Catholic Secular Forum...

September 12, 2017

Bishop: 'gays are like drunks, you can't reason with them'

Portsmouth Bishop Philip Egan, above, reckons that when they are challenged, homosexuals 'lash out, full...

September 10, 2017

Nuns buried hundreds of children in unmarked graves

The lead story today in Scotland's Sunday Post reveals that that more than 400 children...

September 04, 2017

Catholic priest resigns after Ganesh is paraded in a church

Catholic priest Juan José Mateos Castro has been forced to resign after he allowed the...

September 03, 2017

Anti-gay marriage propaganda ignored by young Australians

The debate in Australia over same-sex marriage took a turn this week that's left Catholic...

August 2017

August 28, 2017

Malta church ceiling collapses. Same-sex marriage is blamed.

Part of the ceiling of the Ta’ Giezu church in Rabat collapsed last week, and...

August 27, 2017

Priest's anger with God caused him to download child porn

Kevin Gugliotta, above, a former Catholic priest in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, reportedly told authorities that he...

August 21, 2017

'Cowardly, evil' Catholic brother jailed in Brisbane for 8 years

Francis Brophy, 87, above, began an eight year jail sentence today (Monday) after Brisbane District...

August 19, 2017

Woman weds Jesus but the groom was otherwise tied up

Catholics do stoopid on a scale few other religions can match. This was most recently...

August 08, 2017

Yet another 'whoops' moment for the Roman Catholic Church

At the beginning of July, Marcin A Nurek, 37, above, was ordained a priest –...