Category: Catholicism
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Fury erupts over Barbie Mary and Jesus Ken dolls. The creators insist that no offence is intended.
BACK in 2014 Argentinian artists local Emiliano Pool Paolini and Marianela Perelli received death threats when they staged an exhibition entitled “Barbie: The Plastic Religion” which was later taken to centres outside the country—including the Vatican! In addition to featuring Barbie Mary and Jesus Ken, the exhibition included religious figures from Catholicism, Judaism, Hinduism and…
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Atheism is a ‘state sponsored religion’ claims Oklahoma’s education top gun, a ‘Christian nationalist’
RECENTLY branded as a “Christian nationalist” by the Freedom from Religion Foundation, Ryan Walters, above, was reacting to a lawsuit launched by the FFRF, ACLU and others who are dead set against Oklahoma’s sponsorship and funding of a Catholic school. The 38-year-old State Superintendent of Public Instruction—an increasingly controversial figure in Oklahoma politics with his…
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Street artist protests the €161-million cost of World Youth Day in Lisbon with an enormous banknote carpet
PORTUGAL’S famed street artist, Bordalo II, broke into the grounds of an altar/stage created for WYD 2023, saying in a Facebook post “in a secular state, at a time when many people are fighting to keep their homes, their work and their dignity, millions of public funds have been invested to sponsor the tour of…
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Catholic bishops prayed for a massive swing to the right in Spain’s general election. Mercifully, it didn’t happen.
FOR one horrible moment last week I thought that the highly progressive country I chose to settle in almost 14 years ago would lurch to the right, giving greater power to the misogynistic and deeply homophobic Vox Party, led by Santiago Abascal, above. I had every reason to be apprehensive. Polls ahead of last Sunday’s…
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Predatory Jesuit priest who may have drugged and sexually abused more than 50 men is jailed for 25 years
STEPHEN Sauer, above, was handed the sentence in Lousiana on July 7 after he pleaded guilty to multiple charges involving 17 adult victims. His crimes, according to this report, were centred around the French Quarter neighborhood of New Orleans. Detectives believe that there are more than 50 victims who remain unidentified. The former Catholic priest…
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A b**ch of a row erupts around the Pope’s new head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
ARCHBISHOP Víctor Manuel Fernández, above right, the newly-appointed head of the CDF—once called the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition—has accused those unhappy with his new role of deliberately mistranslating the Spanish word “bruja” (witch) into the “b” word. Looking for reasons to attack the prelate, seen by traditionalists as holding “heterodox…
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U.S. Catholic’s macabre plan to have Thomas More’s head put on public display rebuffed
MORE’S head, separated from his body in 1535 after he got on the wrong side of King Henry VIII, was parboiled, put on a stake for a month, retrieved by his daughter and wound up hidden in a vault in an Anglican church. Its absence from public view at St Dunstan’s in Canterbury. apparently irked…
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Vatican cardinal says homosexuality has nothing to do with clerical abuse. The Catholic League freaks out.
FOR years, Bill Donohue, above, head of the League, has insisted that there are very few paedophile priests within the Catholic Church, and that the abuse crisis within the RCC was all down to gay “psychosexually stunted” clerics targeting teens. So is comes as no surprise that Donohue blew a fuse when he learned that…
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Members of a Jewish cult, headed by a sex offender and fraudster, attempted to invade a Catholic monastery in Haifa
POLICE were called earlier this month by angry Catholics who who claimed that members of a cult, headed by Rabbi Eliezer Berland, inset above, were about to invade the Stela Maris Monastery on Mount Carmel. The reason followers of Berland gave for attempting to enter the the monastery was that the site is where the…
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Bigotry on parade: Catholics for Catholics protest Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in L.A.
WHILE charity group, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, received a Community Hero Award in a near-empty Dodgers stadium in Los Angeles yesterday (Friday), outside hundreds of haters gathered to voice their disapproval of what Catholic for Catholics labelled a “blasphemous” event. The “prayer procession” was organised by CFC, which said of the Sisters: The group…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 