Tag Archives: Catholic Church

Responding to criticism over his recent declaration that the Catholic Church “doesn’t have a pedophile problem, it has a gay problem,” Catholic League president Bill Donohue digs deeper. “AP stories say the reason why there were so many male victims is because the priests did not have access to girls as altar servers. Nonsense. There have been girl altar servers …

Catholic Church officials in Germany set up an abuse hotline for parishioners wishing to report their priests. The line “melted down” on the first day with thousands of calls. The numbers were far more than the handful of therapists assigned to deal with them could cope with. In the end only 162 out of 4,459 callers were given advice before …

Andy Humm of Gay City News reports on yesterday’s protest at NYC’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral. About eight gay male demonstrators showed up to picket St. Patrick’s over the Pope’s continued refusal to accept his responsibility for the abuse crisis and the tendency of his defenders to blame the news media and gay people for the scandal. This week, Fifth Avenue …

Over the last seven days… Alabama: Pastor Bertha Wright arrested on 16 felony counts of Oxycontin prescription fraud.Texas: Pastor Lester Cody pleads no contest to sexually assaulting a minor.Texas: Youth Pastor Matthew Overstreet charged with sexually assaulting a minor.Missouri: Father Patrick Grady pleads guilty to possession of child porn and trying to buy sex from a female minor.Illinois: Deacon George …

A Vatican priest stepped in it yesterday when he compared the global rash of child molestation investigations to the systemic persecution of Jews. Speaking in St. Peter’s Basilica, the priest, the Rev. Raniero Cantalamessa, took note that Easter and Passover fell during the same week this year, and said he was led to think of the Jews. “They know from …

“Three shark in attacks in Florida, million of sharks in the ocean, and no one will go in the water. Hundreds and thousands of children raped in churches and people still send their kids to church. It’s crazy. You should be sending your kids to gay bars. There they will be be safe.” – Dan Savage, speaking on his latest …

The Catholic League’s Bill Donohue continues his campaign of lies on CNN: Let me give you a quick example. I’m Irish. Everybody who has half a brain knows that the Irish have a bigger problem with alcoholism than the Italians or the Chinese, for example. Does that mean because you’re an Irishman, therefore, you are driven to become an alcoholic? …

According to a Vatican spokesperson, Ill Papi Nazi has immunity from being called to testify in any pedophilia trial because Vatican City is a sovereign nation and Ratzinger is its head of state. Dalla Torre outlined the Vatican’s strategy to defend the pope from being forced to testify in several lawsuits concerning sexual abuse which are currently moving through the …

“GLAAD joined with Call To Action and the Interfaith Alliance today in urging media to ignore desperate attempts by anti-gay activist Bill Donohue to distract attention from the latest revelations in the deepening abuse crisis in the Catholic Church. Donohue, who has a long history of outrageous and defamatory attacks on gay people in his capacity as head of the …

Last night Larry King hosted Sinead O’Connor and the Catholic League’s Bill Dohohue to discuss the Vatican’s lack of action on the global pedophilia scandal. Openly gay former CNN anchor Thomas Roberts also appeared to talk about his own molestation by a Catholic priest. Donohue: “Al Qaeda suspects are presumed innocent more than the Pope.” In the third of the …

Towleroad reports that the Catholic League’s Bill Donohue has published an ad in today’s New York Times blasting them for coverage of the global child molestation scandal and claiming that gay men are the true cause of the problem. The Times continues to editorialize about the ‘pedophilia crisis,’ when all along it’s been a homosexual crisis. Eighty percent of the …

The Catholic Archdiocese of Miami is being sued. And you know why. The Archdiocese of Miami, along with top Vatican authorities, knew as far back as 1968 that the Rev. Ernesto Garcia-Rubio, a priest later defrocked amid child sex-abuse allegations, had a troubled past in Cuba before transferring to South Florida, lawyers representing victims claimed Monday. The lawyers say the …

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Over the last seven days… Texas: Pastor Dean Richard Tarkington found guilty of possession of child porn.Kentucky: Pastor Alonzo Bradley arrested for torturing his wife by “beating and burning her with implements.”West Virginia: Pastor Johnny Ray Dempsey pleads guilty to incest and sexual abuse by a parent.Florida: Rev. John C. Spinks charged with possession and distribution of child porn.Maryland: Father …

My favorite YouTube atheist tackles the latest Catholic scandal.

Italian Bishop Francesco Nolè says that “irregular” people like homosexuals don’t deserve to be honored with a funeral. In an interview published last Friday on pontifex.roma.it, a website created to ‘prove and defend Christianity’, Bishop Francesco Nolè declared that ‘irregulars’ such as criminals and homosexuals should not be given communions or funerals. This, he said, is not to be seen …

This Sunday at NYC’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral there will be a protest against the Catholic Church’s campaign to shield child molesters. Facebook event page here. Protest this Sunday against Pope’s protection of paedophile priests. The Pope must resign over cover up of child sex abuse. “Priests can touch boys, but I can’t touch my partner?” Come join us as we …

The New York Times continues to uncover evidence of the Pope’s complicity in the cloaking of pedophile priests. The future Pope Benedict XVI was kept more closely apprised of a sexual abuse case in Germany than previous church statements have suggested, raising fresh questions about his handling of a scandal unfolding under his direct supervision before he rose to the …

The New York Times has issued a bombshell report charging that Pope Palpatine and others refused to defrock an American priest who had molested over 200 deaf boys. The internal correspondence from bishops in Wisconsin directly to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future pope, shows that while church officials tussled over whether the priest should be dismissed, their highest priority was …

Emperor Palpatine has accepted the resignation of Bishop John Magee over the massive pedophile cover-up scandal that has roiled Ireland. “As I depart, I want to offer once again my sincere apologies to any person who has been abused by any priest of the Diocese of Cloyne during my time as bishop or at any time,” Bishop Magee said in …