Tag Archives: Catholic Church

Bishop Robert Evans: Satan Is Trying To Bring Gay Marriage To Rhode Island

“I submit that today, in the State of Rhode Island, we are faced with a challenge to our baptismal promises to renounce the modern day evil works of Satan and confess our belief in Christ and His holy Catholic Church. On the day of our baptism, we chose whose side we are on. The question we must now ask ourselves …

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Quote Of The Day – Bishop Thomas Tobin

“It is particularly disturbing that our new governor, who has trumpeted his desire to bring our state together in unity, would adopt such a very divisive agenda item as one of his first priorities. His proposal violates the sincere conscience of many of our citizens and inflames passions on both sides of the issue. Our state leaders could better serve …

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WISCONSIN: Kiddie-Fucking Sends Catholic Archdiocese Into Bankruptcy

The Archdiocese of Milwaukee has filed for bankruptcy due to all those pesky child molestation lawsuits. The move follows the recent failure of efforts to reach a mediated settlement of the claims and a court decision in November that makes insurance coverage of the claims unlikely, the archdiocese said in a statement. The archdiocese is appealing the decision to the …

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Quote Of The Day II – Father Cutie

“There are so many homosexuals, both active and celibate, at all levels of clergy and Church hierarchy that the church would never be able to function if they were really to exclude all of them from ministry.” – Father Alberto Cutie (his real name), in his new book which slams the Catholic Church as misogynistic and hypocritical. Cutie left the …

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SPAIN: Pope Blesses Anti-Gay Rally

Yesterday Pope Benedict spoke via satellite from the Vatican to bless the hundreds of thousands gathered at a massive annual anti-gay marriage rally in Madrid. The rally was sponsored by the Archdiocese of Madrid with the support of the Popular Party, Spain’s right-wing movement which has vowed to overturn same-sex marriage. Organized by the Archdiocese of Madrid and Cardinal Antonio …

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Not This Year’s Nobel Peace Prize Winner

In the midst of a campaign to see him nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, Belgium’s revered Father Francois Houtart has confessed to child molestation. The confession was published in a Belgian newspaper Wednesday and confirmed by the organization the priest founded, deepening a sex-abuse scandal that has rocked the Catholic Church in the country. After a spate of accusations …

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Catholic Church Punts On DADT

The Catholic Church now says it will not advocate against the implementation of the repeal of DADT. Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerl says the Roman Catholic church has no position on whether gays and lesbians should be allowed to serve openly in the military. On Fox News Sunday, Wuerl was asked if he opposed Congress’s repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” …

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Blowhard Bill Donohue: The $26M Man

It turns out that the anti-gay Catholic League, whose leader Bill Donohue was once famously insulted as “one guy with a fax machine,” has assets of over $26M. And Donohue pays himself quite handsomely out of that hate jackpot. Via Catholics United: Controversial Catholic League president William Donohue – whose work has now gained the support of the president of …

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This Week In Holy Crimes

Over the last seven days… New York: Monsignor Charles Kavanagh has been defrocked after being found guilty of child molestation by a three-priest Catholic tribunal. He is the highest-ranked New York priest so judged and has not faced criminal charges.Oklahoma: Pastor Baron Hopgood arrested for embezzlement.Ireland: Father Oliver O’Grady charged with possessing thousands of child porn images.Ohio: Pastor Mark Griggs …

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Ill Papa Enjoys Stripping Acrobats

Innnnteresting, innit? (Via – Andrew Sullivan)

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Yet Another Group Of Religious Leaders Create Document Slamming Gay Marriage

Ho hum, another coalition of religious leaders have banded together to announce that dirty queers are not about to soil holy matrimony. Leaders of some of the largest religious communities in the United States have come together to express their commitment toward the protection of marriage as the union of one man and one woman. In an open letter released …

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DELAWARE: Jury Awards Record $30M Settlement To Victim Of Priest Molestation

A jury in Delaware has awarded a record $30M settlement to a man who says that he was sexually assaulted by a Catholic priest more than 100 times while he was a boy. That is the highest amount ever awarded to a single plaintiff in any clergy abuse case. In an unusual turn, the judgment rules that the man’s parish …

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Archdiocese Of Baltimore Launches Ad Campaign To “Promote Marriage”

It’s rather a mild message as these things go, but the Archdiocese of Baltimore has launched an ad campaign to “promote marriage.” Maryland is at the top of the list of states where same-sex marriage may next be a reality. (Tipped by JMG reader Dominic)

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Pope Benedict: Even If God Did Make You Gay, You Still Should Not Be Gay

In another excerpt from his coming book/interview, Pope Benedict says that he doesn’t know if people are born gay or not. But even if God did make you this way, you shouldn’t BE this way. Or something. He said it was still an open question whether homosexual inclinations are innate or arise early in life. In any case, he said, …

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PhoboQuotable – Cardinal Francis George

“Everyone has a right to marry, but no one has the right to change the nature of marriage. Marriage is what it is and always has been, no matter what a Legislature decides to do; however, the public understanding of marriage will be negatively affected by passage of a bill that ignores the natural fact that sexual complementarity is at …

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Pope OKs Condom Use For Male Hookers

In a bizarre interview with a German journalist, Emperor Palpatine has decreed for the first time that the usage of condoms is now sanctioned by the Catholic Church in “certain circumstances.” The “for example” he uses? Male hookers! To illustrate his apparent shift in position, Benedict offered the example of a male prostitute using a condom. “There may be justified …

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Bathhouse Art

A new book about Michelangelo speculates that his inspiration for all the nude male figures in the Sistine Chapel’s Last Judgment mural came from his frequent visits to Rome’s gay bathhouses and brothels. Elena Lazzarini, a researcher from Pisa University, believes the enormous fresco is replete with homosexual imagery, including a man being dragged into Damnation by his testicles and …

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Catholic Church: We Need More Exorcists

More than fifty Catholic bishops and priests are in Baltimore this weekend for a training event on how to perform exorcisms. Signs of demonic possession accepted by the church include violent reaction to holy water or anything holy, speaking in a language the possessed person doesn’t know and abnormal displays of strength. The full exorcism is held in private and …

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CNN Covers Minnesota Catholic Bishops’ Anti-Gay Marriage DVD

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