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The White House has issued a brief to the Supreme Court backing the Vatican’s claim that they should be immune from child molestation lawsuits brought in the United States. The Supreme Court is considering an appeal by the Vatican of an appellate court ruling that lifted its immunity in the case of an alleged pedophile priest from Oregon. In a …

John Mark Karr, the creepy loon who falsely confessed to the murder of pre-teen beauty queen Jon-Benet Ramsey, is undergoing gender transition. And some are saying the plan has ulterior motives. The man who claimed to have killed JonBenet Ramsey has legally changed his name to Alexis Reich and is reportedly preparing to undergo gender reassignment surgery. A former student …

JMG reader Andrew sends us the below moving clip of a man angrily recounting his abuse at the hands of an Irish priest. The clip is being publicized by a group demanding a public apology to Sinead O’Connor, who has suffered 20 years of ostracizing after denouncing the abuses of the Catholic Church.

Bishop Felipe Arizmendi is blaming the Catholic church’s global pedophilia scandal on television and internet porn. “With so much invasion of eroticism, sometimes it’s not easy to stay celibate or to respect children,” Bishop Felipe Arizmendi said during an annual meeting of Mexican bishops near Mexico City on Thursday. “If on television and on the Internet and in so many …

Over the last seven days… Kentucky: Pastor Prince Wilbert Woolfolk sentenced to 20 years for raping a teenage girl.Virginia: Presbyterian missionary Eun Tae Lee charged with embezzling $700K from his church.Massachusetts: Father William Ventura busted in Craigslist prostitution sting.New York: Rabbi Baruch Lebovits sentenced to 10-32 years in prison for molesting teenage boy.Colorado: Father Paul Montez accused of stalking teenage …

A Portland, Oregon jury has awarded $1.4M to a man sexually abused by the scoutmaster of his Mormon Church sponsored Boy Scout troop. The scoutmaster had confessed to church and Boy Scout leaders that he molested at least 17 scouts, yet he was allowed to remain in contact with the boys. The LDS does not have to pay their portion …

Catholic bishops in Connecticut are fighting an attempt to lift the statute of limitations on sex crimes committed against children. Under current Connecticut law, sexual abuse victims have 30 years past their 18th birthday to file a lawsuit. The proposed change to the law would rescind that statute of limitations. The proposed change to the law would put “all Church …

Italian Bishop Giacomo Babini continues the Catholic Church’s pedophilia blame game: The latest attempt to deflect culpability and accountability and protect Pope Benedict XVI is drenched in vile anti-semitism and represents a new low — even for the Roman Catholic hierarchy. Giacomo Babini, an emeritus bishop of Grosseto, Italy, believes recent criticism of Pope Benedict XVI’s failure to deal with …

The Pope’s number two man, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, whose home archdiocese has recently imprisoned priests for molesting young girls, is blaming the Catholic Church’s problem with child fuckers on gay men. The Vatican’s second-highest authority says the sex scandals haunting the Roman Catholic Church are linked to homosexuality and not celibacy among priests. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican’s secretary of …

Over the last seven days… Vermont: Pastor David Heckman pleads guilty to stealing $110K from Habitat For Humanity.Florida: Youth Pastor Cecil Wayne Seay charged with sending obscene text messages to 14 year old girl.Alabama: Pastor Anthony Hopkins on trial for murdering his wife and storing her body in a freezer for four years.Florida: Catholic Diocese of Orlando pays undisclosed settlement …

Famed British atheist Richard Dawkins says he plans to have the Pope arrested and charged with crimes against humanity when Ill Papa visits England in September. Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, the atheist author, have asked human rights lawyers to produce a case for charging Pope Benedict XVI over his alleged cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic church. The pair …

The above is Pope Ratzinger’s signature on a 1985 letter blocking the defrocking of a California priest convicted of child molestation. The letter, written in Latin, expresses concern “for the universal good of the Church.” The Vatican has confirmed the authenticity of the letter.

“There are 13 year old adolescents who are under age and who are perfectly in agreement with, and what’s more wanting it, and if you are careless they will even provoke you.” – Tenerife Bishop Bernando Alvarez, blaming child molestation on the victims. Alvarez’ comments have ignited a firestorm of condemnation in Spain.

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 …

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 …