Category: Catholicism
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Homophobic Texas bishop invited Pope to sack him. Francis obliges.
Please click on this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. “FIREBRAND” Bishop Joseph Strickland, above, who despises LGBT+ communities, and had endorsed a video that attacked the Pope as a “diabolically disoriented clown”, was removed from his post yesterday, just weeks after he invited the pontiff to sack him.…
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Oklahoma’s Attorney General sues to stop America’s first religious public school, saying it’s unconstitutional
Please click on this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation OKLAHOMA’S Republican Attorney General Gentner Drummond, above, stands accused of failing to respect Catholics’ wishes to establish the nation’s first religious public charter school after he sued to stop the plan. The accusation, according to this Religion News report,…
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Czech priest vandalises ‘satanic’ pumpkins placed near ‘sacred grounds’ near his village church
CATHOLIC priest Jaromir Smejkal went on a two-day pumpkin-smashing rampage in the the village of Kurdejov after discovering the Halloween symbols near his Church. The BBC reports that he later apologised in an open letter to the mayor, saying he would have acted differently had he known they were carved by children. The Church of…
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Abusive RCC priests were purposely placed among people of colour as victims were unlikely to complain
THE first in-depth study into clergy sexual abuse within African American communities—carrried out by an openly gay Catholic priest, Fr. Bryan Massingale, above—indicates that racism was a major factor in the Catholic Church’s handling of paedophile priests. In an in-depth report, the National Catholic Reporter quoted Massingale, a theologian at Fordham University in New York,…
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Former New Orleans Catholic priest, 91, faces charges of historic sex abuse
CHARGES brought against Lawrence Hecker, above, by a Louisiana grand jury include one that alleges that, in 1975, he choked a teen unconscious under the guise of performing a wrestling move and then sexually assaulted him. Hecker, acccording to Religion News Service, faces felony counts of rape, kidnapping, aggravated crime against nature and theft. It…
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National Secular Society challenges Scotland’s religious representation education law of 1973
AN foolish and undemocratic law in Scotland requires councils to appoint unelected religious representatives to their education committees. Appointees are usually the only unelected members who receive voting privileges, and the NSS is currently running a campaign to remove automatic places on education committees for religious representatives. The Local Government (Scotland) Act of 1973 requires…
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Catholic dioceses of Illinois publicly listed 103 substantiated child sex abusers. The actual number was 451!
BEFORE an investigation began in 2018 into child sex abuse allegations and the public disclosure of substantiated child sex abusers, six Catholic dioceses listed only 103 substantiated abusers. But a report just released by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, above, reveals that 451 Catholic clerics and religious brothers abused at least 1,997 children across all…
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As church attendances slump in the US more are favouring cremations and ‘reductions’ over burials
LAST year California incurred the wrath of the state’s Catholic Conference of Bishops (CCC) when it passed a law that will allow for the composting of human remains. The CCC, according to the Christian Post, was among several groups that opposed to the law, saying the process “reduces the human body to simply a disposable…
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Newly-appointed principal of a Catholic school sacked for removing ‘spiritually dangerous books’
WITHIN weeks of being appointed head of a “lovely little Catholic school” in Tennessee, father of 15 Doug Darnowski, pictured above with his wife Adele, incurred the wrath of parents by removing “pornographic” and “spiritually dangerous” books from the library. These included Harry Potter and 1001 Arabian Nights. Such was the anger over his arbitary…
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Police remove protesters from a Lisbon church that hosted an LGBT+ Mass during World Youth Day
GIVEN the rampant misogyny, homophobia and emotional and physical abuse that characterises the Roman Catholic Church it beggars belief that people—especially members of LGBT+ communities—would want to be associated in any way with this toxic, multinational corporation. But the sad truth is that suckers for punishment exist in all walks of life, none more so…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 