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July 2019

July 15, 2019

Sacked pro-choice teacher teacher sues Catholic school

THREE Facebook posts that attacked anti-abortionists led to the firing of Elizabeth Cox from her...

July 08, 2019

Priest ‘shocked’ by hostile reaction to his paedophile sermon

Ulrich Zurkuhlen, above, a retired Roman Catholic priest in Germany, faced a 'screaming mob' after...

July 07, 2019

Heavens to Betsy! Pope moves to create another furshlugginer saint.

The Vatican's saint-creating machine has gone into overdrive. After examining saints in a feature on...

July 07, 2019

NY priest who supports LGBT rights just got himself suspended

FATHER John Duffell, above, would certainly have had a black mark placed against him when,...

July 06, 2019

Amazon pulls gay ‘cure’ quack’s books. Will the Bible be next?

MARCH 8, 2017, was a significant date, for it saw the long-overdue demise of an...

July 06, 2019

RCC to canonise a man who had a same-sex relationship for 32 years

FOLLOWING on from my recent feature about Catholic saints comes the 'wondrous news' that Blessed...

July 05, 2019

Pope accused of ignoring sex abuse priest’s ‘terrifying dossier’

THE Vatican’s third most powerful prelate, Archbishop Peña Parra – pictured above with Pope Francis...

July 05, 2019

‘Sinning priests’ remark lands Irish PM in hot water

IRISH Prime Minister (Taoiseach) Leo Varadkar, above, has apologised for making an 'unfair' remark about...

July 04, 2019

Poland’s Justice Minister enters the fray over a ‘persecuted’ Christian

POLAND's Justice Minister, Zbigniew Ziobro, inset, has reportedly ordered the national prosecutor’s office to investigate...

July 02, 2019

Priests owe it to God not to report abuse confessions

AN intransigent Vatican is digging its heels in over pressure to have priests report sexual...

June 2019

June 28, 2019

Let us spray: bishop will drench Colombian demons with holy water

THE Colombian seaport city of Buenaventura has a 'wickedness' problem, but Catholic Bishop Monsignor Rubén...

June 28, 2019

Disgraced bishop is given a new job in the Vatican

GERMAN Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van-Elst – better known to the world as the “Bishop of Bling"...

June 26, 2019

Vatican’s female footballers refused to play pro-choice opponents

THE Vatican women soccer team’s international debut match in Vienna last week ended abruptly when...

June 22, 2019

Leading UK Catholic excoriated in latest abuse inquiry report

BACK in 2003 the then Cardinal Vincent Nichols, above – who is now Archbishop of Westminster...

June 19, 2019

It’s just a silly icon, so get over it Poland!

THE Catholic Church in Poland is planning 'services of reparation' across the country on Sunday,...

June 18, 2019

Gay engagement: Catholic University accused of celebrating sin

THE head of a Catholic university in Maryland has annoyed bigots who got their panties...

June 16, 2019

Papal ambassadors admonished for bad-mouthing Pope Francis

THE Pope believes that some of his ambassadors (nuncios) are stabbing him in the back...

June 15, 2019

Ecuador legalises gay marriage and Catholics are furious

ECUADOR'S Bishops' Conference has slammed a court decision this week to legalise same-sex marriage, saying...

June 15, 2019

Vatican’s new sexuality document opens up a fresh can of worms

ON Monday the Congregation for Catholic Education published the grandly titled Male and Female He...

June 14, 2019

Anti-transgender booklets: Catholic hate group targets school kids

VARIOUS reports in the UK claim that the Archdiocese of Liverpool was compelled this week...

June 11, 2019

Petition demands that the Catholic Church returns to basic ‘truths’

HELL exists for sure, homosexuality remains 'contrary to natural law and Divine Revelation' and contraception,...

June 08, 2019

Deranged gay man replaces Brad Pitt to be a ‘Straight Pride’ mascot

WHEN Hollywood superstar Brad Pitt, a non-believer, got wind of the fact that a conservative...

June 05, 2019

Bishop v the gays: controversy takes a new turn

FOLLOWING our report yesterday about the global backlash against a Rhode Island bishop who warned...

June 04, 2019

US bishop left reeling by backlash against his hate-filled tweet

RHODE Island Bishop Thomas Tobin ignited an international firestorm when he tweeted a warning to...

June 03, 2019

Catholic school head arrested for being drunk outside a strip club

MICHAEL Comeau, inset, principal at the Holy Family Catholic school in Port Allen in Louisiana,...

June 02, 2019

Science will find a cure for gayness, says barmy old Brexit bat

STAUNCH Catholic Ann Widdecombe, above, newly-minted Brexit Party European Union member, thinks that science might...

June 01, 2019

Italian city of Modena ‘exorcised’ by Catholics during Pride parade

TODAY, June 1, saw the northern Italian city of a Modena celebrate its Pride 2019...

June 01, 2019

Edinburgh plans to oust religious reps from its education committee

AN Edinburgh Council member has angered the Catholic Church by insisting that religious representatives should...

May 2019

May 29, 2019

Pilgrim’s progress foiled: elderly man ends up in Rom, not Rome

The Lord and sat-nav works in mysterious ways. An 81-year-old UK man intent on seeing...

May 28, 2019

Catholic Church is in a tight spot, but Poles still cling faithfully to it

THERE are two things that the Catholic Church is pretty good at: blaming victims for...