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February 2016

February 23, 2016

Archbishop sparks a moral panic over Girl Scout cookies

A 'spiritual crisis' over the selling of Girl Scout cookies on Catholic premises has been...

February 21, 2016

Deaf victims of Catholic abuse in Quebec get a huge pay-out

A judge has ordered a Catholic religious order, the Clercs de St Viateur du Canada,...

February 20, 2016

Pope’s Francis's attack on Trump 'is merely a lovers' tiff'

The Catholic Church’s cringeworthy squabble with Donald Trump has taken many by surprise. Pope Francis...

February 17, 2016

In Mexico Pope loses his cool after tumbling onto a child

An over-excited devotee pulled the Pope off his feet and onto a child in a...

February 15, 2016

Paedophile priest's suspension lifted by Catholic Church

The Roman Catholic church has lifted the suspension of a Tamil Nadu priest convicted last...

February 13, 2016

Catholics and Anglicans cosy up … to the fury of evangelicals

Among those protesting this week against a Catholic service held for the first time in...

February 08, 2016

Pell to testify at abuse inquiry from the 'comfort' of Rome

Abuse survivor groups have expressed anger over today's decision to allow Cardinal George Pell to...

February 07, 2016

Cardinal Pell too ill to testify in person at sex abuse inquiry

Australian judge, Justice Peter McClellan, will decide tomorrow whether Cardinal George Pell, above, should be...

February 06, 2016

Destination salvation: Pope's blessed bus is to debut soon

In one of his silliest publicity stunts to date, the Pope has given his blessing to...

February 03, 2016

Zika epidemic puts Catholic Church in a difficult position

The Catholic catechism states that besides 'natural family planning', anything else that works to render...

January 2016

January 31, 2016

Sir Terry Wogan: 'If you haven't any doubts, you've no brain'

Terry Wogan, above, ditched religion in his teens. But a priest who was a close...

January 31, 2016

Car that ferried Pope around Philadelphia sold for $82,000

Will the cash raised in action this week for what has been dubbed the 'Pope...

January 31, 2016

Ohio seminary student planned to have sex with infant girls

Joel A Wright, above, who was studying to be a Catholic priest at the Pontifical...

January 27, 2016

Priest punished for informing on paedophile colleague

Shortly after his arrival in the US from India, Catholic priest Fr Jose Palimattom, above,...

January 23, 2016

Pasta protest follows offers of pork to Maltese Muslims

Following a recent protest in the harbour town of Msida by Muslims demanding the use...

January 22, 2016

Australian abuse victim told to repay compensation cash

An over-zealous lawyer had been blamed by the Catholic Church for a 'ham-fisted' letter sent...

January 21, 2016

Catholic Church moves dodgy Archbishop to fresh pastures

A Catholic Archbishop forced to resign after a major sex abuse scandal is now whining...

January 21, 2016

Kenyan plan to regulate faith groups is 'persecution'

Bishop Mark Kariuki, above, chairman of the Evangelical Alliance of Kenya, has slammed a plan...

January 20, 2016

Living by 'biblical values' costs anti-gay couple $13,000

A while back we reported that Catholic farmers Cynthia Gifford and her husband Robert, above,...

January 18, 2016

African bigots are shaping up as the saviours of Christianity

Kenya’s Archbishop Eliud Wabukala, above, is one of a clutch of bigoted African church leaders...

January 18, 2016

Be fruitful and multiply

Genesis 1.28 goes on to command that the Earth be subdued and to give dominion...

January 09, 2016

Hundreds abused at boys' choir school run by Pope's brother

For 30 years Pope Benedict’s 'sadistic' elder brother, Georg Ratzinger, 91, above, ran a famous...

January 07, 2016

Children were in serious risk of abuse at Catholic 'care' facility

Anthony McCallen, 69, left, and James Carragher, 75, this week began lengthy jail sentences for...

January 06, 2016

Reactionary forces in Northern Ireland block abortion reform

An alliance of evangelical Protestants, the Catholic church and a majority of Northern Ireland's Assembly’s...

January 06, 2016

Charlie Hebdo angers Vatican with a murderous God cartoon

The Vatican has accused the French satirical magazine of insulting religious people of all faiths...

January 05, 2016

Poland exposed to a fresh wave of atheist billboards

Today I learned via an email from the Freedom from Religion Foundation (Fundacja Wolnosc od...

January 05, 2016

Pope must apologise for abuse of indigenous Canadians

Ancient papal bulls gave European explorers carte blanche 'to invade, capture, vanquish, and subdue all...

January 04, 2016

Movie about an 8-year-old atheist aired again on Irish TV

The multi-award winning short film Rúbaí – the story of a young girl's impending first...

January 04, 2016

Ex-volunteer calls for an end to the Missionaries of Charity

Hemley Gonzalez, a former volunteer for the Missionaries of Charity, an organisation founded by soon-to-be-sainted...

January 02, 2016

US hospital sued for denying patients contraception surgery

A law suit against Mercy Medical Center in Redding, California, has been launched by the...