Tag Archives: Catholic Church

Another homeless charity is suffering the wrath of the Catholic Church for having the audacity to support equal rights for gays. This time it’s in Portland, Maine. A social service agency’s support for same-sex marriage has cost it local and national funding from the Catholic Church’s anti-poverty program. Preble Street’s Homeless Voices for Justice program has lost $17,400 this year …

The global avalanche of Catholic sex and molestation scandals has reached below the equator and onto Brazilian national television. Brazilian authorities are investigating three priests accused of sexually abusing altar boys after a video allegedly showing one case of abuse was broadcast on television, police and church officials said Tuesday. The case came to light after the SBT network aired …

Back when Pope Palpatine was the mere Archbishop of Munich, he transferred a pedophile priest to another assignment, presumably to cover up the crime. In the new location, the pervy priest molested again. Yesterday, he was finally suspended amid charges of the Pope’s complicity in the widening German child molestation scandal. According to the Archdioceses of Munich and Freising, the …

“Let the record speak for itself. The Catholic Church does not approve of homosexuality; their position on pedophilia, however, is not as clear. I am sure most Catholics do not approve of pedophilia, but the executive branch of Catholicism seems to have difficulty convincing some of us that they are willing to do what is necessary to make sure that …

According to the Catholic Church’s top exorcist, Satan himself lives in the Vatican. Father Gabriel Amorth has conducted 70,000 exorcisms in the last 50 years and says he needs to do a few inside the palace as well. In the last few months, the Catholic Church have been rocked by a series of sex scandals in Ireland, Holland and, most …

“A true Christian is someone who, in any given situation, is supposed to ask themselves what would Jesus do, then try to do that. How an organisation which has acted, decade after decade, only to protect its business interests above the interests of children can feel it has the right to dictate to us what Christians should do is beyond …

I can’t fucking wait to hear how Ill Papa tries to wriggle out of THIS one! “Put on some music, swallow a Viagra, and adelante!” That’s the headline in Europe today following reports that a papal aide used an intermediary in an elite Vatican choir to solicit young male choristers and seminarians for prostitution. Police wiretaps are expected to result …

Washington DC’s Catholic Charities will no longer offer spousal benefits to any new employees in order to ensure that no dirty queer in their employ gets to cover his partner. Employees at Catholic Charities were told Monday that the social services organization is changing its health coverage to avoid offering benefits to same-sex partners of its workers — the latest …

About 300 protesters, many in pink wigs and shirts, walked out of services at a Catholic church in the Netherlands yesterday in reaction a gay man being denied communion for being a hell-bound sinner. This dispute began during Dutch carnival celebrations earlier in February, when the man chosen to be carnival prince in nearby Reusel was refused communion because of …

The Vatican’s ATM is in Latin. Other fascinating Vatican tidbits are at the link, such as the fact that Vatican City has the highest crime rate in the world thanks to the pickpockets that prey on tourists.

At an Intelligence Squared debate in London, openly gay British author, actor, and director Stephen Fry delivered a brutal twenty minute evisceration of the Catholic Church that should be played on American television once a day for the next year. Fry touches on the Church’s appalling wealth, its direct responsibility for uncountable AIDS deaths, and Pope Ratzinger’s repulsive child molestation …

The Vatican has issued its Top Ten Albums of All Time. SRSLY. The Beatles, Oasis, Pink Floyd, Michael Jackson and U2 may be one step closer to paradise. But Bob Dylan is still “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door.” The Vatican has previously denounced rock music as the devil’s work but in a surprise change of tune on Sunday the Holy See’s …

Gay activist Peter Tatchell has launched a petition campaign to “disassociate the British government” from the coming visit by Pope Palpatine. The petition has been posted on Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s official site. We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to disassociate the British government from the Pope’s intolerant views ahead of the Papal visit to Britain in September 2010. …

Citing the coming legality of same-sex marriage, Washington DC’s Catholic Charities today announced the end of its foster care program rather than be forced to license gay couples to care for desperate children in need. Catholic Charities, which receives $20 million from the city, had sounded alarms in the run-up to the council vote, saying programs serving tens of thousands …

“It’s impossible to consider oneself a Catholic if that person in one way or another recognizes same-sex marriage as a right. Politicians have a serious duty to make sure their beliefs, thoughts and proposals concerning the common good are consistent. It’s impossible for the Catholic faith and support for putting homosexual unions on equal footing with marriage to coexist in …

“Your country is well known for its firm commitment to equality of opportunity for all members of society. Yet as you have rightly pointed out, the effect of some of the legislation designed to achieve this goal has been to impose unjust limitations on the freedom of religious communities to act in accordance with their beliefs. In some respects it …

Last February we saw some of the ugliest anti-gay demonstrations ever when red-shirted Christianists jammed the Hawaii state house day after day, successfully stalling a proposed civil unions bill in the state Senate. This week the bill will get another consideration. When Hawaii legislators reconvene on Wednesday, all eyes will be focused not on teacher furloughs that resulted in the …

The authors of the anti-gay Manhattan Declaration, which calls for the disobedience of any laws granting LGBT rights, want to increase its number of signatories from 370,000 to one million. Working to help them reach that noble goal are Catholic archbishops. Via press release: Cardinal Rigali of Philadelphia (right), Archbishop Wuerl of Washington, DC (left), Archbishop Dolan of New York …

Pope Benedict Palpatine has issued another insulting attack on gays, saying that homosexual marriage endangers all of humanity. Oh noes! Pope Benedict XVI on Monday called laws ignoring the difference between the sexes an “attack” on creation just days after Portugal moved to legalise gay marriage. Creatures, including humans, “can be protected or endangered”, the pope, 82, told the Vatican …