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May 2019

May 25, 2019

German cardinal: Christians and Muslims worship different gods

I HAVE learned over many decades of writing about religion that there are two types...

May 25, 2019

Sexual abuse charges filed against five former US Catholic priests

A COMPREHENSIVE investigation into Catholic sexual abuse in Michigan resulted in charges being filed this...

May 25, 2019

Mexican activist targets archbishop over homophobic remarks

TO the enormous displeasure of Archbishop Jesús Carlos Cabrero Romero, above, the state of San...

May 18, 2019

The rainbow flag ‘has replaced the Christian cross in Ireland’

IN an hysterical rant against Ireland's liberation from the jackboot of Catholicism, Anthony Murphy, above, founder...

May 12, 2019

Anti-gay firebrand gets a black eye over proposed ‘Jesus chicken’ law

AFTER his wife abandoned him for a woman in 2014, Texas-based Jonathan Saenz, above, abruptly...

May 09, 2019

Consecrated hosts sold for satanic black masses alarm Catholics

AN e-commerce company that allowed a vendor to sell nine 'sacred' hosts on its site...

May 07, 2019

Polish woman arrested over desecrated Black Madonna icon

A WOMAN identified by Amnesty International as Polish activist Elżbieta Podlesna has been arrested on...

May 01, 2019

Heretic! Catholic hardliners demand action against Pope Francis.

CATHOLIC bishops have been urged to 'take the necessary steps' to stop the Pope's pursuance...

May 01, 2019

In Poland, banana sales soar in protests against censorship

BRANDISHING bananas and eating them 'provocatively', hundreds of protesters have been gathering outside the National Museum...

April 2019

April 30, 2019

Priests suspended for upsetting seminarians with lewd remarks

RICHARD J Malone, above, a Catholic bishop from Diocese of Buffalo, NY, is reportedly investigating...

April 29, 2019

‘College professors are stupid & intellectuals lack common sense’

CATHOLIC League President Bill Donohue is touting a book he's just published that 'declares war...

April 24, 2019

Catholic foster care agency’s ban upheld by Philadelphia court

IT was reported last year that the city of Philadelphia would no longer place foster...

April 21, 2019

Pope ‘blindsides’ gay UK comedian with acceptance message

Stephen K Amos doesn't go a bundle on the Catholic Church, so when he learned...

April 17, 2019

BBC excoriated by ex-staffer for being ‘ignorant’ about Christianity

A BLISTERING attack has been launched against BBC 1’s News at Ten by one its...

April 16, 2019

Notre Dame blaze: right-wing loons are having a field day

IT was a fire. It was devastating. It damn near destroyed one of the world's...

April 16, 2019

RCC caught out lying about ‘dangers’ of non-Catholic Irish schools

The Catholic Church is Ireland has been accused by an Irish academic of spreading misinformation...

April 15, 2019

News outlets charged with contempt over Cardinal Pell’s trial

IN what has been described as an unprecedented attack on press freedom in Australia, 23...

April 15, 2019

New survey shows that ‘no-religion’ is at an all time high in America

Given that President Trump, with the help of shuffling hordes of theocracy-demanding evangelical zombies, is...

April 12, 2019

‘Gay cure’ courses: Catholic Church accused of breaking Spanish law

SPAIN has tough anti-homophobia laws, and promoting or carrying out so-called 'conversion therapy' is banned...

April 11, 2019

Rise of atheism deals a further blow to Catholic Church in Spain

AN English language weekly newspaper in Spain, Euro Weekly News, today published the following report...

April 10, 2019

Raped Indian nun: Catholic bishop charged after a lengthy delay

Bishop Franco Mulakkal, above, was arrested in India last September, but it was not until...

April 10, 2019

Anti-vax student sues Kentucky health authority – and loses

JEROME Kunkel, 18, above, refused to to be vaccinated against chickenpox on religious grounds, wrongly...

April 06, 2019

Shock and indignation follows Amsterdam priest’s ‘coming out’

AT the beginning of April Catholic priest Father Pierre Valkering, above, celebrated the 25th anniversary...

April 04, 2019

Holy smoke! Book-burning priest fined for illegal bonfire

THE Rev Rafal Jarosiewicz, a Catholic priest who recently led a book-burning ceremony in Gdansk,...

April 02, 2019

Catholic priests’ book burning was ‘psychological child abuse’

A clutch of Catholic priests in northern Poland set off a firestorm on social media...

April 01, 2019

Op-ed: Log Cabin Republicans have a queer view of equality

Log Cabin Republicans are a deluded group who work to persuade their fellow Republicans not...

March 2019

March 30, 2019

No ifs or butts: women shouldn’t wear leggings – especially in church

A CATHOLIC mom has sparked a lively debate in an Indiana University's student newspaper over...

March 29, 2019

Catholics rail against NJ’s legalisation of assisted suicide

BOTH chambers of New Jersey's state Legislature have passed a bill allowing assisted suicide –...

March 29, 2019

Chilean court awards thousands to paedophile priest’s victims

THREE men who fell prey to Rev Fernando Karadima, above, Chile's most notorious paedophile priest,...

March 28, 2019

Binge-drinking bishop accused of sexually abusing seminarians

IT'S been a bad month for West Virginia's former Bishop Michael Bransfield, above. First, he...