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November 2021

November 12, 2021

Pope lavishes praise on cardinal who remained silent over abuse

IN January, 2020, outrage was expressed in various quarters after Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, above, the...

November 01, 2021

Op-ed: Popes and Presidents

THE Washington Post ruminates over how things have changed between John F. Kennedy’s visit to...

September 2021

September 08, 2021

‘Bewitched’ bishop who refused to be exorcised abandons the RCC

WHEN colleagues of conservative Spanish bishop Xavier Novell, above, learned that he'd fallen in love...

June 2021

June 08, 2021

Pope refuses to apologise for abuse of indigenous Canadians

ON Sunday, just days after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told the Catholic Church to...

May 2021

May 29, 2021

Vaccine ‘wafers’ prove that COVID measures have become ‘a religion’

'WELL, that's gotta be the stupidest thing I'm likely to read all day,' I muttered...

April 2021

April 23, 2021

Secularism is subjecting Western Christians to ‘polite persecution’

THE head of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue, above, has seized on a new religious...

April 10, 2021

Catholic Church stunned by trans woman yearning to be a nun

A FEW years back a rollicking musical – Nunsense A-men! – crossed the pond from...

March 2021

March 25, 2021

Pope orders pay cuts to offset millions lost due to COVID-19

IN February this year, Team Francis brought the Pope grim tidings: God was a woman...

March 16, 2021

Hypocrisy: Sir Elton John slams ‘stupid’ RCC over gay unions stance

BRITISH pop legend Sir Elton John is no fan of religion. Back in 2006 he...

March 10, 2021

It’s official: Almost half of white US evangelicals are plague rats

DESPITE the fact that numerous religious leaders – from Pope Francis through to Walter Kim,...

December 2020

December 21, 2020

Catholics told ‘don’t panic’ after saint’s blood fails to liquify

A PRIEST gently shook a reliquary holding the congealed blood of San Gennaro, the patron of Naples....

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 10, 2020

Clerical abuse: RCC again shows that it can’t handle the problem

DESPITE being castigated in a damning report on clerical abuse, the head of the Catholic...

October 2020

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 23, 2020

Venezuela edges towards gay marriage after Pope’s remarks

VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro, above, has asked the country’s National Assembly to discuss same-sex marriage...

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...

October 16, 2020

Hitler was ‘exorcised’ by Pope Pius XII, new book reveals

ITALIAN journalist Fabio Marchese Ragona has a new book out that reveals that Eugenio Pacelli...

October 14, 2020

‘Blessed’ teen on track to be patron saint of the Internet

A SCRAP of an Italian teenager's T-shirt that allegedly cured a Brazilian boy of a...

September 2020

September 25, 2020

Saint-creating cardinal resigns. He himself, apparently, is no saint.

ITALIAN Cardinal Angelo Becciu, above, Prefect of the Congregation of the Cause of the Saints...

September 19, 2020

Vatican sets up outfit to ‘liberate’ the Virgin Mary from mobsters

CRIME bosses in Italy and beyond have apparently been 'exploiting' images of the Virgin Mary...

August 2020

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 14, 2020

Catholic Church abuse: One archbishop dies, another resigns

CHILEAN archbishop Francisco José Cox, 86, defrocked in 2018 by Pope Francis years after he...

July 2020

July 24, 2020

High school principal ‘procured’ a pupil for disgraced cardinal McCarrick

THE Theodore McCarrick affair in America grows more toxic by the day, prompting the National...

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 06, 2020

Prelate praised ‘beauty’ of the RC church at an SF exorcism

LAST month protesters toppled a statue of St Junípero Serra, a 'brutal' 18th century Spanish...

July 01, 2020

Former Irish President attacks ‘evil’ Catholic Church

IN a podcast interview ahead of last weekend’s Pride celebrations in Ireland, Mary McAleese, above,...

April 2020

April 30, 2020

COVID-19: UK broadcasters have a duty to ramp up Christian content

SOCIAL distancing and the closure of churches have given UK broadcasters a golden opportunity dish...

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...

April 07, 2020

Cardinal Pell: persecuted just like Jesus?

OK. So by now the whole world knows that of many hundreds of priests jailed...

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...