Tag: Catholicism
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Abuse survivor speaks out after former Catholic cardinal is found not competent to stand trial for abuse
JAMES Grein, 64, abused for years from the age of 11 by Theodore McCarrick, inset above, has accused McCarrick’s legal team of “coaching” the former prelate for psychiatric assessments that culminated in abuse charges being dropped against him. Yesterday (Wedneday) a state district judge ruled that McCarrick, 93, was not competent to stand trial on…
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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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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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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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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…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 