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December 2020

December 27, 2020

Priestly punch-up: Bishop bashed in a seminary closure row

'THE Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who...

December 21, 2020

Faith-heads conflicted over the morality of Covid-19 vaccines

IN mid-December, evangelist Franklin Graham, above, thanked God, Trump and Mike Pence for the roll-out...

December 15, 2020

Toss Vatican’s Thoroughly Modern Mary into the River Tiber

NATIVITY scene traditionalists have taken to social media to scream bloody murder over the Vatican's...

November 2020

November 20, 2020

Cardinal sues magazine, says it ruined his chances of becoming pope

SEEMS as if Cardinal Angelo Becciu, above, forced to resign by Pope Francis amid a...

November 12, 2020

NY rabbi who avoided jail for child sex abuse dies of COVID-19

BACK in 2012, Rabbi Joel Kolko, above, avoided a jail sentence after pleading guilty to...

October 2020

October 27, 2020

Op-ed: All the absolutes

I READ a piece by Fintan O’Toole about the US Attorney General William Barr, above,...

October 26, 2020

Churches targeted in protests against Poland’s near ban of abortion

FAR-right thugs, including Robert Bakiewicz, right, were videoed yesterday (Sunday) ejecting women from a church...

October 25, 2020

Catholic vandal & cronies tell Pope to clarify his views on gay unions

ALEXANDER Tschugguel, inset above, who gained hero status among conservative Catholics after dunking stolen 'pagan'...

October 21, 2020

Pope calls for legal protections for gay couples

ROSARY beads must be working overtime in conservative Catholic circles since Pope Francis made clear...

September 2020

September 24, 2020

Poland’s ‘equality & social inclusion’ policies exclude LGBT members

POLISH President Andrzej Duda, inset above, last Sunday participated in 5,000 strong march to declare 'let's...

September 13, 2020

Minnesota priest parrots crazy COVID-19 conspiracy theories

LAST Sunday Rev Robert Altier, above, of the Church of St Raphael in Crystal, Minnesota,...

August 2020

August 26, 2020

Faith-based custom stamps ‘unsuitable for all ages and audiences’

A Christian fanatic representing an American 'religious liberty' outfit alleged that the US Postal Service...

August 23, 2020

Baptism balls-up: priest’s ordination and sacraments invalidated

SINCE 2017, when he was ordained, Fr Matthew Hood, above, of the Archdiocese of Detroit,...

August 19, 2020

‘Asinine’ Pope blasted for praising a transsexual housing complex

THE first housing complex for transsexuals in Argentina – the brainchild of Mónica Astorga Cremona,...

August 12, 2020

Priest orders autistic boy, 7, out of a NJ baptism service

THE Archdiocese of Newark has apologised to a family whose son Nicky, above, was thrown...

August 07, 2020

NYC church asks for prayers & support after priest’s child porn arrest

FOLLOWING the arrest late last month of Catholic Fr Francis Hughes, above, on on charges...

July 2020

July 29, 2020

Catholic paedophile, 96, jailed again for abusing boys

IN 2017 retired UK priest John Kevin Murphy, above, was sentenced to three years for...

July 23, 2020

Exorcists say ‘occultists’ have hijacked a popular Catholic cult figure

JUST days after the International Association of Exorcists warned that rank amateurs were encroaching on...

July 18, 2020

COVID-19: Catholic Gov wants Louisiana to fast & pray … again!

IN A move that proves the Republicans haven't quite cornered the market in religious lunacy, Louisiana's...

July 13, 2020

Right-wing Catholic crackpot attacks the contraceptive pill

SHE looks as mad as a hatter, and judging from a recent interview she gave...

June 2020

June 11, 2020

Archbishop stokes Trump’s ego in a letter that warns of ‘dark forces’

LAST week Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, above, who served as Papal Nuncio to the US ...

June 02, 2020

Trump’s second religious photo-op blows up in his face

YESTERDAY Donald Trump drew fire from numerous quarters – including Joe Biden – for brandishing...

May 2020

May 29, 2020

Handling magic crackers with latex gloves ‘sacrilegious’

AN Italian theologian – Msgr Nicola Bux, inset below – is the latest to toss...

May 21, 2020

COVID-19 is God’s way saying ‘worship me or I’ll smite you’

PRIESTS who claim that pandemics such as COVID 19 are not a manifestation of God's...

May 18, 2020

Let us spray: photos of pistol-packing priest prove inspiring

WHEN ST Andrew's Parish in Detroit recently posted pictures on Facebook of Catholic priest Timothy Pelc...

May 10, 2020

Poland’s neo-fascists and priests want a full-on Catholic theocracy

THE Nazi-like figure brandishing a crucifix is Robert Bakiewicz, a far-right Catholic leader in Poland....

May 05, 2020

Cardinal says ‘you can’t put God in a bag. It’s insane & disrespectful’

THE head of the Vatican’s liturgical office, cardinal Robert Sarah of Guinea, was responding with outrage...

April 2020

April 29, 2020

Second Catholic priest blasts ‘adulation’ of National Health Service

LESS than a week after a Catholic priest warned that the UK was in danger...

April 25, 2020

Row between a US priest and his bishop reaches farcical levels

A VIRGINIA priest who established a blog in which he posted entries critical of the...

April 17, 2020

‘Real holy water’: Vatican axes Pope’s whisky quip.

AT the weekend BBC viewers will be treated to a documentary about trainee Catholic priests...