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And I have repeatedly tweeted Porno Pete, calling on him to denounce his BFF Scott Lively for hiring a convicted child molester to work with school children. Lively has been the subject of numerous praising posts on LaBarbera’s site and the two have appeared together at an event held by the SPLC-certified hate group, MassResistance. Last year, MassResistance endorsed Scott …

Emperor Palpatine has waived the traditional five year post-death waiting period and is moving to have Pope John Paul II named a saint. Because he was a miracle worker. Literally. The pope on Friday signed off on the miracle needed to beatify Pope John Paul II, and set May 1 as the date to honor one of the most beloved …

Police have arrested a convicted child molester working at the Springfield, Massachusetts coffeehouse of infamous anti-gay activist Scott Lively, who runs the business as a Christian outreach to local teenagers. A local man who served as manager of the Holy Grounds Coffee Shop on State Street — a cafe operated by anti-gay pastor Scott Lively that serves free coffee and …

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 …

Pastor Tom Daniels of Rio Linda, California is being held on $6M bail after being charged with multiple felony counts of sexual assault on a child. Lavender Newswire reports that Daniels twice made donations to Protect Marriage, the backers of Proposition 8.

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 …

Over the last seven days… Texas: Pastor Earl Post arrested for stalking a teenage girl.New York: Rabbi Victor Koltun pleads not guilty to ordering the murders of two men. Koltun was previously sentenced to five years for mail fraud.Connecticut: Pastor David Pomales and his children arrested in church brawl.Bangladesh: Imam Afsar Ali arrested in connection with the death of a …

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 …

Over the last seven days…. Indiana: Father Byron Canada sentenced to 11 years in prison in $2.7M real estate scam.Arkansas: Pastor Robert Burnham resigns after bust in prostitution sting.Indiana: Pastor Vaughn Reeves sentenced to 54 years in prison for embezzling over $13M from church construction investors.New York: Rabbi Victor Koltun charged two counts of murder in the killings of a …

Over the last seven days… Colorado: Pastor Joshua Amoroso charged with sexual assault of a 14 year-old girl.Germany: Report implicates more than 250 priests and staffers in child abuse scandal at school in archdiocese once headed by the Pope.Kentucky: Pastor Currie Pat Clark charged with 296 counts of sodomy of a 12 year-old boy.Georgia: Pastor Brian Richard Gray charged with …

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 …

Over the last seven days…Alabama: Pastor Carl Lloyd arrested for sodomizing a child.New York: Rabbi Yehuda Kolko arrested for violating order of protection against 12 year-old boy he’s accused of molesting.Japan: Buddhist priest Nobuaki Matsumoto busted for hiring middle-school age prostitute.Florida: Pastor Daniel Richard Robida charged with unlawful sexual acts with a child.Ireland: Father Raymond Brady charged with molesting ten …

Over the last seven days… Virginia: Pastor J.P. Hale sentenced to six years in prison for indecent liberties with a child.Pennsylvania: Father Robert Timchak sentenced to six years in prison for possession of child pornography.North Carolina: Rev. Walter Donald Bradshaw arrested for the rape of an 11 year-old girl.South Carolina: Pastor David K. Love arrested for the murder of a …

Over the last seven days… Washington: Pastor Greg Scott Glover arrested for stealing oxycontin from the home of an elderly parishioner. She busted him with a hidden camera.Ireland: Father Brendan Wrixon charged with sexual assault of a teenage boy.Ontario: Reverend Paul Hartig charged with felony theft for stealing from his own church.California: Pastor Dino Cardelli arrested for molesting a 13 …

In a case highly similar to that of Atlanta’s “Bishop” Eddie Long, a pastor in Las Vegas has been arrested and charged with 11 felony counts of molesting teenage boys. According to police, Pastor Billy Eskstine McCurdy used biblical verses to coerce the boys into sex. North Las Vegas police arrested Billy Eckstine McCurdy, 57, following an eight-month investigation into …

Over 20,000 people attended this weekend’s “Protest The Pope” rally in London, where noted atheist Richard Dawkins slammed the the pontiff for blaming Hitler on atheism. More great photos from the rally are here.

The repulsive details of one of today’s Holy Crimes.

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 …

The beauty of Catholicism is that perpetual clean slate. Pope Benedict begged forgiveness from God and victims of child sexual abuse by priests on Friday and vowed that the Catholic Church would do everything in its power to ensure that it never happens again. Benedict made his comments, some of his clearest ever about the scandal that has swept the …

The Plaid Crew comments on the new issue of Vermont Catholic: This is the actual cover of the current issue of Vermont Catholic magazine, the monthly publication put out by the Diocese of Burlington. No joke. Less than a week after an almost-$18 million settlement with the remaining 26 plaintiffs (you know, all those kids who were diddled by priests …