More Catholic Coverup
For today’s episode of the continuing coverup of abusive priests, we go to Uganda. Anthony Musaala is a popular priest, or rather he was a popular priest. He has been suspended indefinitely by the...
View ArticleAnother one hides in the Vatican
Back in February, Cardinal Keith O’Brien was accused of having inappropriate contract with 4 priests in incidents stretching back over 30 years (one has since left the priesthood). The four, from the...
View ArticleCatholic Writer Lists 5 Reasons Why Same Sex Marriage Is Harmful to Chidren.
Before we get into this, I must qualify my comments by stating I am a straight white male who raised three children to adulthood while going through a divorce from an emotionally abuse women and a...
View ArticleRestitution
That’s what victims and supporters would like to see from the Catholic for the decades (or more) cover-up of paedophile priests. After years of battles, denials, buck-passing, and victim blaming, has...
View ArticleWhen Conspiracies Collide
If you have ever read, or watched the film adaptions of, Dan Brown’s books, you will be familiar with a number of the conspiracy theories around the Catholic Church. Many of these centre on Opus Dei,...
View ArticleTheology of Women – The Pope’s View
Many people believe that because Pope Francis has a gentle demeanour and reaches personally to people that the church may move away from its conservative stance on women and other aspects of human...
View ArticleChild Sexual Abuse in the Dominican Republic
Surprise, surprise. A high ranking member of the Catholic church in the Dominican Republic is involved in a case of sexual abuse. Is this even news any more? That’s the sad part, it hardly even...
View ArticleBenedict has a short memory
The previous Pope, Benedict XVI, has written a letter to an atheist Italian mathematician in which he conveniently ignores a piece of his past. One could call it a lie of omission, as the facts are...
View ArticleCatholics for Choice
Catholicism is a Christian sect in which the leader makes pronouncements that the majority of followers totally ignore. Catholics have premarital sex, use contraception, divorce and remarry, have gay...
View ArticleDrug dealers are the Devil
At least in the eyes of the Catholic Church in Mexico. Estimates by Mexican media have suggested that since 2006, approximately 70,000 people have died in the drug wars.and many thousands more have...
View ArticleCatholic Church as arbiter of moral authority – Canadian Residential Schools
The Catholic Church is an organization that has a view of itself that is totally at odds with its actions. I am talking about the things that have been committed or condoned by the organization as an...
View ArticleThe Bishop of Portsmouth Doesn’t like Secularism
In a non-surprising statement from the Bishop of Portsmouth, Philip Egan, he claims that secularism is not a good basis for a society. “Secularism is too fragile a basis for a free society…the Gospel...
View ArticleThose Poor Persecuted Catholics
The Christian religion is built upon tales of persecution and martyrdom. From the earliest days of conflicts with Jews and Romans, Christians have often clashed with ruling classes. Some of this...
View ArticleMorality and religion
I have been trying to write something about the mass grave of discarded children in Ireland and Catholic society that allowed such mistreatment to continue for so long. The other Catholic topic that...
View ArticleLiberal Catholics
I very often criticize the Catholic Church for its numerous shortcomings on human rights and paedophilia (among many others). It is important to note that most of these shortcomings are the teachings...
View ArticleIt’s exorcism time again
This month, you get the chance to attend the “Exorcism and Prayer of Liberation” course held at the Vatican. The annual course, “Exorcism and Prayer of Liberation,” is designed for priests and lay...
View ArticleGo Home Cardinal Pell
Australia has not been immune to the worldwide acceptance of child sexual abuse by the hierarchy of the Catholic Church. As everywhere, the Bishops, Archbishops, and Cardinals have been masters of...
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