TagsTagsThe Vatican is cracking down on American nuns who aren't opposed to women's rights and gay rights, which should surprise no one who's been following the Catholic Church's swing to the right. WASHINGTON — The Vatican has launched a crackdown on the umbrella group that represents most of America’s 55,000 ...
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Prepare to be even more appalled by the Catholic Church's abuse of children than you may already be: Catholic Church Abuse: At Least One Youth Castrated for 'Homosexuality'. At least one boy under the age of 16 was castrated to 'help' his homosexual feelings while in Catholic church care in ...
As a practicing Roman Catholic and Sunday school teacher, Stephen Colbert is especially well-suited to this ruthlessly funny deconstruction of the birth control controversy.
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Unless I passed out under an enchanted tree and have been sleeping for decades without knowing, this is the year 2012, right? AD? So why are we still fighting over contraception? The controversy over the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation’s decision to eliminate funding to Planned Parenthood—and subsequent reversal— ...
Religious Right, catholic church, Contraceptives, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Atavism, Election 2012
Birth control pills via Shutterstock Right wing think tank the Heritage Foundation is blaring that "Obamacare" has awakened a sleeping giant: It is a rare moment indeed when faith denominations of all stripes unite together in common cause, and it is rarer still when that cause is a political one, with ...
President Obama, Health Care, Birth Control, Contraceptives, catholic church
Interesting development in the right wing war on women's rights: there are actually some religious groups beginning to get uncomfortable with the implications of the crazy far right agenda they've been supporting. Notably, the Mississippi Catholic Bishops: Religious Leaders Denounce Personhood Anti-Abortion Bill. This Tuesday, Mississippians will vote on Initiative ...
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Tonight in a special cage match, it's the Tea Party vs. the Catholic Church: GOP Rep to target Catholic Church tax status. Republican State Rep. and Tea Party leader Andrew Manuse (R-Derry) told the Catholic League he will be filing legislation in the New Hampshire House to strip the Roman ...
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The Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia has suspended 21 priests, after a grand jury report revealed yet another cover-up of predatory priests. The mass suspension was the single-most sweeping in the history of the sexual-abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church in the United States, said Terence McKiernan, president of BishopAccountability.org, ...
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A 1997 letter from the Vatican to Ireland's Catholic bishops has surfaced, confirming what has been obvious for quite some time -- that the Catholic Church's world-wide cover-up of child molestation by priests went all the way to the top. (AP) DUBLIN - A newly revealed 1997 letter from the ...
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Horrific revelation from a newly published section of Ireland's investigation into child abuse by Roman Catholic priests in Dublin: DUBLIN (AP) — The Vatican tried to stop church leaders here from defrocking a particularly dangerous pedophile priest and relented only after he raped a boy in a restroom at a ...
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Yesterday, the Pope's comments about condoms caused a huge international stir, because it seemed like he was signaling a change in Catholic policy. So today the Vatican rushed out another statement to clarify that when Pope Benedict said it might be OK for male prostitutes to use condoms, he meant only ...
I was going to write that Pope Benedict seems to be softening his position on this, but that just didn't sound right: Pope: condoms can be justified in some cases. Benedict said that for male prostitutes — for whom contraception isn't a central issue — condoms are not a moral ...
The Catholic Church is looking for some good men to fight off an invasion of disembodied malevolent entities. Citing a shortage of priests who can perform the rite, the nation's Roman Catholic bishops are holding a conference on how to conduct exorcisms. The two-day training, which ends today in Baltimore, is ...
Visiting Britain, Pope Benedict frankly admitted something that's been nauseatingly obvious for many years, that the Catholic Church hasn't acted "swiftly" in cases of child abuse. Another big point of his speech, though, was an attack on secularism and atheism, hauling out the canard that the Nazis were "atheists:" Pope Benedict ...
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Ugh. The Catholic Church child abuse scandal in Belgium just keeps getting worse: Priest sex abuse linked to 13 suicides in Belgium. BRUSSELS – Hundreds of sex abuse victims have come forward in Belgium with harrowing accounts of molestation by Catholic clergy that reportedly led to at least 13 suicides ...
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The Catholic Church child abuse scandal in Belgium just got a whole lot worse. Belgian newspaper Het Laaste Niews is reporting that when authorities searched the home of the former archbishop of Brussels, Cardinal Godfried Danneels, they discovered a hidden cache of documents and photographs on notorious child sex killer ...
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Here’s today’s genuine outrage, as Pope Benedict once again sides with child molesters within the Catholic Church against government officials trying to bring the molesters to justice: Pope deplores ‘sex abuse’ raids by Belgian police. Pope Benedict has joined mounting Vatican criticism of raids by Belgian police investigating alleged child ...
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What kind of religion is it that has so little respect for the lives of women that they won’t even allow abortions to save their lives? That’s exactly the situation with St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, where a long-time administrator has been demoted and possibly excommunicated for authorizing an abortion ...
catholic church, Abortion, Cruelty, Women's Rights, Misogyny
The longest-serving Roman Catholic bishop in Belgium has resigned after admitting he sexually abused “a young man in my close entourage.” In a statement issued by the Vatican on Friday, Roger Vangheluwe, 73, the bishop of Bruges since 1984, said that the abuse had occurred “when I was still a ...
catholic church, Sex Scandal, Child Abuse, Corruption, Belgium
There’s a bill currently making its way through Connecticut’s legislature that would remove the statute of limitations for child sex abuse cases. Connecticut bishops are mobilizing to fight against it. The proposed change to the law would put “all Church institutions, including your parish, at risk,” says the letter, which was ...
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The Associated Press has obtained a 1985 letter signed by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict), in which he resisted defrocking a pedophile priest because of the effect it would have on “the good of the universal church.”
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Yes, it’s another case of child abuse covered up by the Catholic Church: Vatican Declined to Pursue Accused Priest. A Catholic priest charged with sexually assaulting a teenage girl in Minnesota has been allowed to continue working at a Catholic diocese in southern India despite warnings from an American bishop ...
catholic church, Sex Scandal, Child Abuse, Corruption, Pope Benedict
Here are still more cases in which the Catholic Church allegedly refused to take action against priests who were molesting children, even after being warned repeatedly about what these monsters were doing. The abuse cases of two priests in Arizona have cast further doubt on the Catholic church’s insistence that ...
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Or so insists Italian exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth, who says the Devil is inspiring all this media coverage of Catholic Church child abuse: Satan behind media attacks on the Pope, asserts Italian exorcist. Rome, Italy, Mar 31, 2010 / 11:47 am (CNA).- Noted Italian exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth, commented this ...
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Bill Donohue, head of the Catholic League, is always ready to jump in and defend the indefensible. This time it’s especially repellent as Donohue argues that since “the vast majority of the victims [of abuse by Catholic priests] were post-pubescent,” the problem is not pedophilia — but homosexuality. In some ...
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