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March 2017

March 03, 2017

Gruesome find at Catholic home for unmarried mothers

Ireland’s Children’s Minister Katherine Zappone TD, above, has described the find of 'significant quantities' of...

February 2017

February 27, 2017

Paedophile priests better inside the church than out

Last year it was reported that paedophile priest Mauro Inzoli, above, had agreed to pay...

February 18, 2017

Anti-Pope posters reveal deep divisions in the Catholic Church

Earlier this month, authorities in Rome sprang into action to cover up a series of...

February 10, 2017

Priest jailed for 28 years for abusing vulnerable children

Roy Lovatt, 71, above, a Catholic priest and housemaster at a Yorkshire children's home, received...

February 06, 2017

US Catholics angry at Boys Scouts … and Donald Trump

Last year, Joe Maldonado, above right, an 8-year-old transgender boy from New Jersey was barred...

February 06, 2017

RCC spokesman in tears over Australian abuse revelations

The enormity of child sexual abuse within the Australian Catholic Church has been revealed after...

February 05, 2017

Spanish nun sparks fury by claiming Mary was not a virgin

Sister Lucia Caram, 51, popular in Spain for her TV cookery programmes and her outspoken...

January 2017

January 26, 2017

Knights of Malta head quits after condom row with Pope

Grand Master Matthew Festing, 67, pictured above, has resigned after becoming embroiled in a public...

January 22, 2017

Horoscopes are ridiculous but Satan is real says exorcist

Mexican priest Father Francisco López Sedano, above, dismissed horoscopes as 'ridiculous' in a recent interview. Thinking...

January 20, 2017

Inquiry exposes widespread child abuse in Northern Ireland

The Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry (HIA), headed by Sir Anthony Hart, above, reveals that children's...

January 17, 2017

Comedian's 'haunted bread' comment sparks investigation

Father Kevin McNamara, above, has lodged a complaint with the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI)...

January 16, 2017

Cardinal: 'Soon we'll all be Muslims because of atheism'

Monsignor Carlo Liberati, above, bishop emeritus of Pompeii, has warned that 'atheism' and 'paganism' –...

January 14, 2017

Spanish couples are rejecting Catholic Church weddings

Church weddings have hit an all time low in Spain. Only 22.2 percent of 68,560...

January 12, 2017

Philippines: Catholic Church loses contraception battle

For years the Catholic Church has fought tooth and nail to prevent women in the...

January 06, 2017

Should ex-atheist Zuckerberg now embrace Catholicism?

Christians have been crowing ever since Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg told the world on Christmas day...

January 03, 2017

Italian priest is accused of staging church rectory orgies

Father Andrea Contin, above, a parish priest in the northern city of Padua in Veneto,...

December 2016

December 28, 2016

Argentine abuse case: Pope Francis 'lives outside of reality'

The Pope and the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith are keeping schtum...

December 07, 2016

Church law loophole allowed a paedophile to keep his job

Paedophile Catholic priest Fr Kevin Gugliotta, 54, above, is currently languishing in jail, awaiting trial...

December 04, 2016

Catholics sorry that a priest abused a disabled woman

The Catholic Church today publicly apologised to a disabled woman who was abused over a...

December 01, 2016

Catholic Church in Norway fined over membership fraud

Last year it was reported in Newsweek that Bernt Ivar Eidsvig, the bishop of Oslo,...

November 2016

November 29, 2016

Indiana man warned off singing at his gran's funeral

An Indiana man who attended a gay pride event has been refused permission by a...

November 28, 2016

Staff abused over school's plan to charge £1 for nativity play

A plan to charge a £1 entrance fee for three performances of a nativity play...

November 27, 2016

Vatican gets all prissy over Anne Boleyn's 'pritty duckys'

The Vatican has reportedly denied the BBC permission to film a letter written by Henry...

November 25, 2016

Pope gives Patriarch Kirill of Moscow a grisly birthday gift

The picture above shows His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, right, with...

November 23, 2016

Mad monk who disrupted church services avoids jail

Brother Damon Kelly, above, a member of a bizarre Catholic cult known as the Black...

November 21, 2016

Artist Abel Azcona cleared of blasphemy by a judge in Spain

Last year performance artist Abel Azcona horrified Catholics in Pamplona, Spain, when he used 242...

November 20, 2016

Bogus Catholic priest in LA sold tickets to see the Pope

Erwin Mena, above, has been jailed in Los Angeles for the second time for posing...

November 20, 2016

Poland becomes a monarchy, with Jesus Christ as King

Ten years ago Polish politicians shelved a silly suggestion that Jesus should be crowned king...

November 17, 2016

Creationist Ben Carson won't be in Trump's administration

A large swathe of Americans can breathe easier today in the knowledge that Christian fundamentalist...

November 08, 2016

Sick stunt: US priest places aborted foetus on an altar

Catholic priest Frank Pavone is at the centre of a firestorm after he placed an...