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March 2019

March 27, 2019

Female team running Vatican publication resigns en masse

Eleven women working for a supplement published monthly by the daily L'Osservatore Romano newspaper have...

March 27, 2019

Filipino tyrant Duterte wants all abusive Catholic priests killed

IN his latest attack on the Catholic Church Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, above, said the...

March 25, 2019

Paranoid Scottish Catholics fear their faith could be criminalised

THE Catholic Church in Scotland believes that there is a ‘very real danger’ that holding...

March 23, 2019

Faith-based adoption agencies in Michigan suffer a major set-back

THERE is much discontent among Catholics in Michigan as a result of a successful bid...

March 22, 2019

Priest accused of groping ill woman while giving her last rites

THE Catholic Church is not – I repeat NOT – crammed to the rafters with...

March 19, 2019

Angry gays may have sparked trial of ‘scapegoat’ Cardinal Pell

AN acquaintance of convicted sexual predator George Pell, above, has claimed that not only Pell...

March 17, 2019

Maltese priest unleashes fury by saying God created homosexuality

FR KEVIN Schembri, above, a theologian and jurist who teaches at the University of Malta,...

March 16, 2019

Catholic fanatic slithers into the UK to lead a Lent retreat in London

EARLIER this week we reported that Yosef Mizrachi, a demented rabbi who believes, among other...

March 15, 2019

‘Sex mad’ Catholic priest jailed in UK for abuse of six youngsters

AFTER a jury at Aylesbury Crown Court delivered a guilty verdict against a 75-year-old priest...

March 14, 2019

Jesus crackers: Vatican officials won’t discuss changing the recipe

THE Catholic Church won't be changing the recipe for the Eucharist – once described as...

March 13, 2019

‘Arrogant’ George Pell, sentenced to six years, ‘could die in prison’

IN passing sentence on convicted child abuser George Pell, above, Chief Judge Peter Kidd today...

March 08, 2019

Pupils and teachers suffer burns in UK school’s Ash Wednesday stunt

A TOTAL of 90 pupils and staff members at St Augustine’s Catholic High School in Redditch,...

March 07, 2019

Cardinal sin: another senior Catholic cleric is sentenced over abuse

CARDINAL Philippe Barbarin, above, has been given a six-month suspended sentence for his role in...

February 2019

February 27, 2019

Pope says Vatican abuse summit damaged the Church’s credibility

NO, not that Pope, but a Catholic priest in Washington DC called Msgr Charles Pope...

February 26, 2019

Op-ed: Vatican abuse summit was an exercise in arse-covering

BARRY Duke has pointed out the cowardice and uselessness of the Vatican’s latest bafflegab on...

February 26, 2019

Child molester Cardinal George Pell will almost certainly be jailed

AUSTRALIAN Cardinal George Pell, 77 – the Vatican treasurer and a close adviser to Pope...

February 25, 2019

Pope uttered same old hogwash at Vatican’s four-day abuse summit

'RECYCLED rhetoric' was the actual phrase used at the conclusion of the summit this week...

February 25, 2019

‘Pro-family’ group cries persecution after losing non-profit status

HazTeOir.org, a Spanish conservative Catholic group that campaigns against trangenderism and LGBT rights, has had...

February 23, 2019

From Isle of Man with love, on Valentine’s Day

RECENTLY women in Gibraltar and Malta got a Valentine’s Day gift from Manx people they...

February 23, 2019

Humanists UK takes on Catholic Education Service … and loses

A LEGAL challenge against Catholic schools advertising that jobs that can only be filled by...

February 22, 2019

Statue of paedophile Polish priest Henryk Jankowski toppled

AFTER it was pulled to the ground this week, activists responsible for the act put...

February 20, 2019

Focusing on homosexuality shifts attention from female victims

FRAMING the Catholic Church's abuse crisis 'as a homosexual issue' shifts the focus away from...

February 20, 2019

March for Life Catholic schoolboy suing newspaper for $250 million

Nicholas Sandmann, 16, above, and his family have filed a lawsuit against The Washington Post....

February 19, 2019

Pope’s ‘close friend’ accused of abuse and taking naked selfies

ANOTHER day, another revelation about an abusive Roman Catholic priest – this one a 'spiritual...

February 10, 2019

‘Smells and bells’ in a Michigan church results in priest’s removal

LAST December Catholic priest Father Edwin C Dwyer boasted that he was attracting more young...

February 10, 2019

Ugandan church leaders and feminists slam ‘curvy’ women event

RARELY do I find myself siding with clerics, but I have to say that Father Gaetano...

February 09, 2019

Catholics aghast at over lunch funding for Protestant fanatics

THE ORANGE Order, a Protestant outfit which has been described as 'sectarian', 'triumphalist', 'supremacist' and...

February 07, 2019

Gay atheist Polish Mayor is out to diminish power of Catholic Church

GIVEN that Poland is overwhelmingly Catholic, and thus fanatically homophobic, it must have come as...

February 05, 2019

Sexual abuse inquiry: Papal nuncio should be expelled from UK

THE Pope’s representative in Britain, Archbishop Edward Adams, ought to be jailed or kicked out...

February 04, 2019

Alleged abusive priest allowed to celebrate Mass in Texas church

CARDINAL Daniel DiNardo, above, who leads the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, has drawn criticism...