Month: March 2023
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Year of prayer planned to deal with Ireland’s chronic shortage of Catholic priests
“Take the Risk for Christ” is the name of an initiative that’s scheduled to begin on April 30. In a pastoral letter released for Lent, Bishop Paul Dempsey, above, of the Diocese of Achonry, warned that the diocese had not had any new priests for a decade—and has no seminarians currently in formation. Dempsey wrote:…
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International Churches of Christ founder named by five women in abuse lawsuits
THOMAS Wayne “Kip” McKean II, above, and the ICOC stand accused, along with several affiliated outfits, of childhood sexual abuse and a financial pyramid scheme. According to The Guardian, the lawsuits, which seek damages, allege that defendants created “a widespread culture of acceptance of the abuse of children”. A church elder allegedly told a mother…
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Claiming that ‘homosexuals are invading the Church’ is not homophobic, bleats sacked evangelical lecturer
Dr Aaron Edwards, above, a father of five, was dismissed for misconduct by Cliff College, a Methodist college in Derbyshire, after he was accused of bringing the college into disrepute on Twitter. He now making suing noises. EDWARDS, 37, is “considering his legal options” and believes the college has discriminated against him by breaching its…
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‘Persecuted’ NY Christian loses $10 million lawsuit
Raymond Zdunski, above, was sacked after refusing to attend a mandatory workplace LGBTQ training course. AFTER losing his lawsuit last year against Erie 2-Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES), Zdunski suffered another blow when an appeals court judge in Manhattan tossed his case. Zdunski sought reinstatement, back pay and $10 million in damages, but…
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Republican lawmakers accuse UK government of ‘harassing’ anti-abortion Christians
Image via YouTube LAST year anti-abortion fanatic, Texas Congressman Chip Roy, above—along with almost 40 Republicans, issued an open letter accusing the Biden administration of waging “open war on Pro-Life activists”. Roy and his barmy cohorts, according to this report, claimed that the US government has been using former President Bill Clinton’s Freedom of Access…
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Drag-hating Republicans embrace a God-fearing, Trump-loving man in drag
Image via Twitter WHEN Ryan Woods, aka Lady Maga USA, attended a recent Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Florida he got a rapturous reception despite his appearance in full drag. Given the Republicans’ hatred of drag queens, one has to ask why Woods, a Salt Lake City Mormon, wasn’t pelted with eggs and beaten…
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Poland’s ruling party makes the defence of Pope John Paul II a key electoral issue
Image posted to Twitter by the President of the Republic of Poland. AN “explosive” documentary recently aired by US-owned broadcaster TVN alleges that when Karol Józef Wojtyła was a cardinal in his home city of Kraków, he protected priests accused of sexually molesting children. According to Politico the ruling nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party—closely…
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‘Bible was ‘ahead of its time in its progressive attitude to women,’ says church warden
Photo by Sarah Noltner on Unsplash THIS preposterous statement comes from Carol Carruthers, warden at St Fimbarrus Parish Church in Fowey, Cornwall, after the church got branded as “sexist” for refusing to to allow a woman to be its next vicar. St Fimbarrus has not had a vicar for four years and is now casting…
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The FBI partnered with white evangelicals in a bid create a Christian nationalist nation
Images via YouTube & Princeton University Press EDGAR Hoover, who served as the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1935 to 1972, was a thoroughly nasty piece of work who masterminded a programme to identify gays working for federal agencies in order to have them fired. His animosity towards homosexuals most likely…
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NZ Christian school will shut down because it can’t offer ‘cures’ for homosexuality
1 News screenshot IVY Tan, above, a spokesperson for Kaitaia Abundant Life School in New Zealand described as “horrendous” a law that prevents it from offering conversion therapy to pupils who identify as gay. At the beginning of 2023 NZ became the latest country to outlaw cruel and discredited interventions aimed at turning gays “straight”,…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 