Category: Catholicism
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With an abuse case pending against dead Pope Ratzinger, relatives say no to his money
IN January this year it was reported that a court case in Germany against the late Pope Benedict XVI will continue in spite of his death. He was accused of covering up sexual abuse committed by a priest during his time as Archbishop of Munich and Freising. The case, according to Religion News Service, raises…
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Catholic group calls for $1-m to fund ads calling for a boycott of the LA Dodgers
FURY among conservative Catholic groups over the fact that the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence will not only appear at a Dodgers game on June 16 but will also be handed a Community Hero Award is reaching fever pitch. One outfit—CatholicVote—has gone so far as to launch a $1-m fundraiser to buy ads aimed at exposing…
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Catholic cleric who railed against ‘psychosexually dysfunctional’ priests faces child pornography charges
FOLLOWING his arrest in October, 2021, for possessing child porn, Father James W. Jackson, a Rhode Island priest, was detained for the second time last year in Kansas for allegedly violating the conditions of his release. His trial is about to commence shortly. And here’s the kicker: Just weeks before his first arrest, Jackson wrote…
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Satan turned priests into child molesters, claims gay Christian hatemonger after he saw a rainbow-draped crucifix
DOUG Mainwaring’s foam-flecked rants get ever more hysterical. What sparked his latest tirade this week was a poster for a documentary—Wonderfully Made LGBTQ+R(eligion)—which explores how religion has played a leading role in perpetuating anti-LGBT+ attitudes. Now here the thing: Wonderfully Made debuted in September, 2022, but Mainwaring—a self-loathing, married-to-woman homosexual who spends all his waking…
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Dead body tourism: nun’s cadaver attracts thousands to Gower, Missouri (pop 1,533)
CATHOLICS. as we all know, have a ghoulish fascination with matters pertaining to death. Their taste for all things creepy has now created a tourist boom in Gower, with thousands queuing for hours to goggle at the corpse of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, who died four years ago aged 95. The invasion of the town began…
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Catholic League’s Bill Donohue brands Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence ‘an anti-Catholic hate group’
HOW many queers hate Catholics? Catholic League President Bill Donohue, inset above, posed this question after it was announced that the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, would after all, perform at a Los Angeles Dodgers game on June 16. He answered his own question: It’s hard to say, but it is clear beyond a shadow of…
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When Poland was under communist rule paedophile priests who cooperated with the regime were rewarded
RESPONDING to an investigation by two journalists who sought to uncover clerical abuse in the Catholic Church when Poland was under communist rule, Archbishop Wojciech Polak of Gniezno, above, has admitted that, “for decades we have been blind to the suffering of those harmed.” The investigation was carried out by Tomasz Krzyzak and Piotr Litka…
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Whoops! Vatican forced to withdraw a ‘terribly bad taste’ World Youth Day stamp
TWO days was all it took for the Vatican to realise it had made a massive blunder by issuing a stamp created to celebrate World Youth Day in Portugal in August, 2023. After its release this week, the stamp was scrapped in the face of outrage over what many, including Catholics, saw as a celebration…
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RCC must do more to oppose a bill that would decriminalise homosexuality in Sri Lanka
INTERFERING with progressive legislative processes in countries across the world is something the Roman Catholic Church and evangelical organisations are particularly adept at. But in Buddhist Sri Lanka the Catholic church, led by Archbishop of Colombo—His Eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, above—stands accused of failing to adequately oppose a bill that that would do away with…
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Bolivian priest’s nephew discovered that he kept a diary, detailing sexual abuse of ‘at least’ 85 minors
JESUIT priest, Alfonso Pedrajas, above, was exposed as a serial abuser by Spanish newspaper El País back in 2018 when it ran an expose headlined “The Diary of a Paedohile Priest.” Its report was gleaned from information discovered on Pedrajas’ computer after the Bolivian-based priest’s death in 2009. But in a new development El País…
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