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April 2020

April 10, 2020

Trump’s policies align perfectly with Catholic values, says priest

AT a 'Catholics for Trump' launch yesterday (Thursday) Rev Frank Pavone, above, a staunch anti-abortion...

March 2020

March 28, 2020

Pope cuts out the middle-men; says it’s OK to confess directly to God

POPE Francis appears to have had a Martin Luther moment yesterday (Friday) when he said...

March 18, 2020

Covid-19 lays Catholic vandal low. Thoughts and prayers called for.

ALEXANDER Tschugguel, one of two Catholic vandals who threw Amazonian idols into the River Tiber...

March 16, 2020

NJ housing association: Virgin Mary’s an ‘idol’ & ‘should be smashed’

BARRISTER Farms Condominium Association in New Jersey has been warned that unless they allow the...

March 06, 2020

Autistic boy denied communion because he can’t confess his sins

NEW Jersey priest John Bambrick, above, of St Aloysius Church in Jackson, is at the...

February 2020

February 12, 2020

‘Paedophilia doesn’t kill anyone,’ says Rhode Island Catholic priest

WHEN you're in a hole, keep digging yourself in deeper. That seems the thinking of...

February 12, 2020

Spain moves to legalise euthansia. Catholics are horrified.

LAST December, after Spain's Socialist and left wing parties entered a coalition, Cardinal Antonio Cañizares...

February 11, 2020

UK politician wants Gibraltar to retain draconian abortion laws

GIBRALTAR, a British overseas territory on the tip of the Iberian Peninsula, has a draconian...

January 2020

January 23, 2020

Peter’s Pence: US bishops are being sued for ‘lying and stealing’

IN the wake of a Wall Street Journal exposé last December that claimed that Peter's Pence,...

January 02, 2020

German Cardinals and Bishops ‘have gone round the bend’

IN what is seen as a move to whip 'liberal' Catholic leaders in Germany back...

January 01, 2020

Lawsuit claims Mother Teresa shielded a predatory priest

A LAWSUIT filed in California yesterday (Tuesday) alleges that Mother Teresa vigorously defended her 'spiritual...

October 2019

October 27, 2019

UK Catholic priest who wanted to abuse a two-year-old boy is jailed

UK PRIEST Fr Matthew Jolley, 32, above, has received a jail sentence of over three...

October 26, 2019

God loves shiny things – and Catholics are great at providing them

ALL BUT lost in all the heat and fury generated by the Vatican's 'syncretic' Amazon...

October 20, 2019

Kenyan clerics see ‘hand of God’ in marathon man’s amazing run

EARLIER this month Eliud Kipchoge made history by becoming the first person to run a...

October 16, 2019

Ireland ‘forced’ to have an official rep at Newman’s canonisation

IT'S emerged that Ireland had no plans to send an official representative to the Vatican...

October 13, 2019

Newly-minted ‘pink’ saint prompts an article about celibacy

THE headline above a piece penned by Dorothy Cummings McLean for LifeSiteNews yesterday reads 'Married...

October 11, 2019

Popular ghost tours to cease after vicar’s alleged harassment

MIKE James, above, who has been organising enormously popular Cotswold Ghost Tours in Prestbury, Gloucestershire,...

October 09, 2019

Boy, 7, died after a beating at a Catholic school, abuse inquiry told

ALDO Moroni, a pupil at a prestigious Catholic school in Scotland, was beaten so viciously...

October 05, 2019

‘Knock it off!’ Devil screams at priest who uses bells for exorcisms

Hell's bells! Yet another report about exorcism – this time via Patti Maguire Armstrong, a...

September 2019

September 26, 2019

Exorcist has a plan to draw Ireland back from ‘a tsumani of evil’

BACK in 1979, Pope John Paul II (now up there with the saints) warned that...

September 03, 2019

Exorcists advised a Catholic priest to remove school’s Potter books

REBECCA Hammel, above, a schools superintendent for the Catholic Diocese of Nashville, has confirmed that...

September 01, 2019

Angry exorcists berate ‘heretical’ top Jesuit who said Satan isn’t real

WHEN Father Arturo Sosa, above, Superior General of the Jesuits recently said that Satan existed...

August 2019

August 22, 2019

Priest spent stolen cash on men he met on a gay dating site

Thoughts and prayers are with a Philadelphia Catholic priest – Joseph McLoone, 56 – who...

August 03, 2019

Pope gave away ‘precious’ bits of St Peter. Discontent ensues.

IN June, Pope Francis, on a whim, handed nine bone fragments of Peter the Apostle...

August 02, 2019

Fury expressed after a ‘sexual abuse enabler’ gets a $2.45-m payoff

FORMER Michigan State University President Lou Anna Simon, who was charged in November 2018 with...

July 2019

July 30, 2019

Sadistic Catholic priest receives an 18-year jail sentence

AT the conclusion of his second trial – the first was 2017 –  Father Michael...

July 30, 2019

UK cathedral unveils indoor golf course. Christians yell ‘sacrilege’

THERE'S much wailing and gnashing of teeth in Christian circles over a decision by Rochester...

July 23, 2019

Car-crash priest found in possession of $95k of stolen church funds

WHEN father Oscar Diaz, 56, of Santa Rosa’s Resurrection Parish in California, crashed his car...

July 23, 2019

Texas school’s haircut demand ‘traumatises’ Catholic schoolboys

CESAR and Diego Gonzales sport long braids because of a promise their Roman Catholic family...

July 19, 2019

Man, sacked for Facebook anti-religious post, is reinstated

BRIAN Leach, above, the UK man sacked by supermarket chain Asda for sharing a video...

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