Category: Catholicism
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Euthanasia law passed in Portugal despite strong religious opposition and a presidential veto
BACK in March of this year, Portugal’s Catholic bishops got a bit ahead of themselves when they congratulated the country’s President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, above, for vetoing a proposed euthanasia bill. De Sousa is a “devout churchgoer.” Their joy was short-lived. Despite the veto, the lawmakers yesterday (Friday) passed a law that will enable…
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Priest who destroyed African idols says ‘it’s about the coolest thing I’ve ever done’
MISSIONARY priest Fr William Ryan, above, who is based in Togo, recently invited his brother Peter, also a priest, to participate in engage in an act of Catholic vandalism. He then gleefully boasted that his sibling, who was visiting him at a mission in the east African country, had used a sledgehammer to reduce, “with…
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The ghost of Benedict XVI is on tour, claiming he was ousted as Pope and was the victim of ‘slow euthanasia’
SHORTLY after his death in December, 2022, Joseph Ratzinger appeared before Sister Benedicta of the Holy Cross in Colombia on February 2, 2023, and warned of “impending doom.” During his lengthy discourse with the nun, Ratzinger, who died aged 95, revealed that his death was a case of “slow euthanasia.” Not only did Ratzinger identify…
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After conducting a funeral, a predatory Michigan Catholic priest abused a boy aged five
WHEN paedophile Vincent DeLorenzo, above, comes up for sentencing on June 13, the 84-year-old is expected to sent to prison for a year. DeLorenzo pleaded guilty this week to a charge of sexual assault on the youngster following a family funeral in 1987. The priest, who served for many years in the Roman Catholic Diocese…
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Fourth abuse charge brought against former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, 92
IN 2021 McCarrick, defrocked after a Vatican investigation confirmed he had sexually molested adults as well as children, became the first cardinal in the US to ever be criminally charged with a sexual crime against a minor. The frail nonagenarian first appeared in a Massachusetts court where he faced three counts of indecent assault and…
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‘Profoundly anti-Catholic and disgusting to boot’. LifeSite News hatemonger excoriates Oscar-winning movie
BEFORE the absurdist multiverse action fantasy-comedy Everything Everywhere All at Once scooped SEVEN Oscars last month, anti-LGBT+ Catholic zealot John-Henry Westen, above, went on the warpath against the movie in a video posted to YouTube upon its release last year. After its stunning triumph at the Academy Awards, Westen re-posted the profoundly anti-gay video. It…
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Amidst a massive show of adoration for Saint John Paul II, statues of the ‘cover-up’ Pope are vandalised in Poland
A LARGE majority of Poles are in a state of denial over revelations that Pope John Paul II covered up clerical abuse . This was made abundantly clear at the weekend when tens of thousands took to the streets in support of the late Pope. However, its reported here that, amidst the event, held to…
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Abusive priest’s artwork poses a headache for Lourdes shrine in France
A GROUP made of priests, a psychotherapist and an victim of clerical abuse are pondering on whether to remove artwork created for the Basilica of the Sanctuary of Lourdes by Jesuit priest Marko Rupnik, inset above. Rupkin stands accused of sexually and psychologically abusing consecrated women from the Loyola Community in Slovenia. A few months…
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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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