Tag: Catholicism
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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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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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Praise for Pell overshadowed by revelations that he considered Pope Francis ‘a catastrophe’
Images via YouTube MEDIA outlets across the globe are today reporting that a secret memo castigating Pope Francis and written under the pseudonym “Demos” was in fact penned by George Pell, who died suddenly aged 81 this week. Reports under heading such as ‘Pell wrote secret memo calling Francis’ papacy ‘catastrophe’, journalist says, have effectively…
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Kinky Jesuit priest and renowned artist alleged to have had ‘threesomes’ with nuns
A mosaic designed by Fr Marko Rupnik, inset, depicts Christ’s descent into hell and resurrection. Credit: Giovanna60/wikimedia. CC BY SA 3.0 THERE’S a great deal to dislike about the far-right LifeSite News: its homophobia, transphobia and its shameless peddling of conspiracy theories, to name just a few. But, despite its constant railing against pornography, it…
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Was Ratzinger hit on the head with an ornate hammer to make sure he was dead and not just asleep?
The Vatican today planted emeritus Pope Benedict XVI in three coffins because he was dead. We know he was beyond feeling pain because he didn’t cry “ouch” when he was hit on the head three times with a fancy ceremonial hammer. But do we? Catholism is so full of grisly ceremonies and bloody imagery that…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 