Tag Archives: Catholic Church

Students at Cathedral High School in Springfield, Massachusetts took to the streets this weekend to express their disgust over the forced resignation of their dean, Christine Judd, who was asked to leave the school after 12 years because she had married a woman over the summer break. “Without being specific to this matter, it should be clear that all employees …

The Catholic Church is fostering protests against same-sex marriage and adoption in Mexico with Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iniguez saying publicly, “Would you want to be adopted by a pair of faggots or lesbians?” Things got very heated yesterday in Guadalajara. Gay rights activists and a group of Roman Catholics in Mexico have yelled insults at each other during dueling demonstrations …

Mexico City’s Mayor Marcelo Ebrard has filed a defamation lawsuit against Cardinal Juan Sandoval after the cardinal told the press that Ebrard had bribed Mexico’s Supreme Court justices to legalize same-sex marriage and gay adoption. Sandoval made the allegations on Sunday during an event in Aguascalientes state. He also used a slur against gays while decrying the recent high court …

Britain’s charity regulatory commission has ruled that the Catholic Care adoption agency must serve gay couples. The agency had demanded that it be exempt from the nation’s anti-discrimination laws. Catholic Care, a charity in Leeds, northern England, had argued that as a religious group it should be allowed to offer adoption-support services only to heterosexuals. It said its funding from …

Over the last seven days… Israel: Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira arrested for incitement to kill non-Jews.Arkansas: Pastor Joshua Wilson arrested in prostitution sting.New York: Convicted child molester Rabbi Baruch Leibovits demands and gets special kosher meals in prison.New York: Father Thomas Kresier resigns in embezzlement scandal.Virginia: Pastor James Bolton arrested for statutory rape.Ontario: Father Kenneth O’Keefe arrested for child molestation.British Columbia: …

“In a sense, he has declared marriage to be unconstitutional, because there is no such thing as ‘gay marriage’,” since true marriage requires a man and a woman.”

Costa Rican LGBT activists are fighting an effort by the Catholic Church to force a public vote on legal recognition for same-sex relationships. The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) approved a proposal made by four lawyers, backed by 150,000 signatures — 20,000 more than are legally required — calling for the referendum, rather than the legislature, to determine whether to allow …

New York Post editorial writer and columnist John Wilson has quit the newspaper business to become a Catholic priest. Wilson spent three years on the Post‘s editorial board, landing there immediately after graduating from Claremont McKenna College in California. “I definitely grew fond of tabloid journalism as such,” he says. “I had a great time and I think I was …

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church and a local Pennsylvania amusement company are being investigated by the Secret Service after they created a likeness of the president to use as a shooting target in a carnival midway game. The game’s target is a painting of a black man in a suit who is holding a scroll labeled “Health Bill.” …

Towleroad provides the transcript: “If you want to get to the nuts and bolts of it in the male homosexual world, I think the most heinous act is anal sex. Now, if anybody were to think about that in truth, they would say one person is being harmed by this act, which is why there are so many gastrointenstinal afflictions …

“It is worth noting, once again, how utterly hollow the Vatican is on the subject of homosexuality. It is an institution so embedded with homosexuality it makes Broadway look straight. The stories I’ve heard! The network of gay priests is vast in Rome, and is, in my mind, as unhealthy for those who get away with it – the hypocrisy …

“During the 1990s, when I worked as an escort in Denver, Colorado, I estimate at least 15 percent of my clientele were clergy or connected with the church in some way. There were one-timers and there were guys who came back again and again and again, and they were all the same: positively giddy when the encounter began, unable to …

Video site Newsy looks into the possible motivations for Argentina’s president’s support of marriage equality.

Wow. The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from the Vatican, which was attempting to shield itself from child molestation lawsuits in the United States. The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to consider whether the Vatican has legal immunity over the sexual abuse of minors by priests in the United States, allowing a lawsuit filed in 2002 to go …

A priest in the Dominican Republic wants to tear down his church’s artwork because the angels look totally gay. And evil. The painting named “Allegory of the Virgin of Carmen,” was concluded 12 years ago by Dominican artist Roberto Flores. The artwork adorns the interior of the church of “Our Lady of Carmen” in the mountain community of Jarabacoa, an …

An all-girls Catholic high school in Manhattan will be closing this month, after which the city will take over the building to create an arts magnet middle school. But under the city’s lease agreement with the Archdiocese of New York, the new school is forbidden from teaching any of the sex and HIV education classes required by state law. Under …

“It seemed a real danger that the boy being raised by the same-sex couple would bring to school something obscene or pornographic, or refer to such things in conversation, as they go along with the same-sex lifestyle, which–as not being related to procreation– is inherently eroticized and pornographic. He might expose other children to such things, as he might easily …

UK television network Channel 4 has hired famed gay activist Peter Tatchell to host an hour-long documentary examing the Pope’s upcoming visit to Britain. And the nation’s Catholics are very displeased. Ann Widdecombe, the Tory politician who famously converted to Catholicism, said: “I think this will confirm the view that there probably already is in the Vatican that this is …