Tag: World Youth Day
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Police remove protesters from a Lisbon church that hosted an LGBT+ Mass during World Youth Day
GIVEN the rampant misogyny, homophobia and emotional and physical abuse that characterises the Roman Catholic Church it beggars belief that people—especially members of LGBT+ communities—would want to be associated in any way with this toxic, multinational corporation. But the sad truth is that suckers for punishment exist in all walks of life, none more so…
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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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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…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 