Category: Catholicism
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US Catholic bishops rail against ‘aquamation’, an eco-friendly alternative to burial
CONCERNED that members of their cult might be drawn to what what they wrongly believe is a newfangled method of disposing of human remains—alkaline hydrolysis, or “aquamation”—the US Conference of Catholic Bishops have issued a statement condemning the process. The statement says: In recent years, newer methods and technologies for disposition of the bodies of…
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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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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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Catholic Church fears ‘persecution’ as Michigan moves to strengthen LGBT+ protections.
Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Image via YouTube ACROSS America fanatical anti-LGBT+ and anti-transgender religious groups are waging a coordinated campaign to restrict LGBTQI+ rights and are targeting transgender youth in particular. But Michigan is bucking this disturbing trend. Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer says she will sign an amendment to the state’s Civil Rights Act that includes protections…
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Catholics lavish $50-million on a Blessed Stanley Rother shrine and gift shop in Oklahoma City
IN a bid to spread the “cult” of America’s first martyr—an Oklahoma priest assassinated in Guatemala in 1981, a $50 million shrine was dedicated yesterday. ARCHBISHOP Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City said in this report: To spread his cult, as we call it in the church, to increase devotion to him shouldn’t be hard. If…
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Clerical abuse probe is an ‘open wound that hurts and shames us’ says Portuguese bishop.
Jose Ornelas, above, head of the Bishops’ Conference, is himself under investigation. A teacher has accused him of covering up sex abuse at an orphanage in Mozambique in 2011, something he denies. A REPORT, commissioned by the Conferência Episcopal Portuguesa and released on Monday. shows that at least 4,815 children were sexually abused by members…
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Catholic Church snooper found a photo of a teacher kissing her girlfriend. She’s now out of a job
All Souls Catholic School in Englewood, Colorado, found Maggie Barton, inset above, ‘unfit’ to teach kids for leading a lifestyle contrary Catholic teaching. THE photo that got Barton, 32, sacked was kept secret and never posted on social media for fear of repercussions. But she underestimated the lengths the RCC will go to to stick…
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If Florida Gov. DeSantis runs for President Catholic racists, anti-semites and homophobes will rally behind behind him
Image via YouTube RON DeSantis has so far refused to say whether he will run for President, but if he does he might well find a strong following among right-wing, Jew-hating Catholics, as well as white Protestant nationalists. Writing for The New Republic at the weekend, Audrey Clare Farley pointed out that DeSantis “quite masterfully…
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Brace yourselves for another execrable ‘Left behind’ movie
FEW movies are so abysmal that they score 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, but that’s what happened when Left Behind, featuring Nicholas Cage hit cinema screens in 2014. Despite being universally panned by critics—with the exception of those who lavished praise on it in Christian publications—it did manage to gross $27-million against its $16 million production…
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Catholic school careers counselor sacked over Wiccans’ crystal gifts to pupils
Image by EPro via Pexels AFTER complaints were lodged by some pupils at North Catholic High School in the Diocese of Pittsburgh, administrators decided that crystals did not fit in with approved Catholic tchotchkes. So they decided to ask the counselor, who has asked not to be been identified, to resign. The ridiculous saga began…
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