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The pope’s private butler has been arrested and charged with leaking embarrassing and confidential Vatican documents to the Italian press. The pope’s butler has been arrested by Vatican police on suspicion of leaking a large number of confidential letters addressed to Benedict XVI which have lifted the lid on alleged corruption and nepotism at the Holy See. A Vatican spokesman …

“The church insists it’s an argument about religious freedom, not birth control. But, really, it’s about birth control, and women’s lower caste in the church. It’s about conservative bishops targeting Democratic candidates who support contraception and abortion rights as a matter of public policy. And it’s about a church that is obsessed with sex in ways it shouldn’t be, and …

This “shocking attack” clip is currently at the top of NOM’s blog. It’s also pretty fucking hilarious. Naughty language within.

“Even as Republicans try to wrestle women into chastity belts, the Vatican is trying to muzzle American nuns. Who thinks it’s cool to bully nuns? While continuing to heal and educate, the community of sisters is aging and dying out because few younger women are willing to make such sacrifices for a church determined to bring women to heel. Yet …

The Vatican’s official liaison to Britain has called for all religions to put aside their differences in superstitions in order to unite in battle against the civil equality of gay people. Addressing English and Welsh bishops at their plenary meeting in Leeds, Archbishop Mennini, warned them they faced a “lengthy and probably difficult campaign”. “I wonder if we shouldn’t ask …

The Vatican has strongly reprimanded America’s 55,000 nuns, saying that they are not being vocal enough with denouncements of homosexuality and same-sex marriage. In many ways, the Vatican’s actions against the LCWR encapsulated the kind of hard line that many expected Benedict — the Vatican’s former doctrinal czar — to take when he was elected in 2005. “The current doctrinal …

In what may be their single-most outrageous and repulsive move yet, NOM is attempting to whip up anti-gay fervor by expanding their Starbucks boycott into nations that may put homosexuals to death or have other legal punishments for merely being gay. Brian Brown exults: In our first week, we gained 25,000 pledge signers in the U.S. alone; today we go …

The St. Gabriel Possenti Society has named GOP Sen. Mike Johanns (NE) as its “gun saint” of self-defense for his work to thwart gun control laws. In other news, there is a Patron Saint of Handgunners. Or will be, rather, if the Vatican approves the request of the Society. The Society’s patron, St. Gabriel Possenti, a seminarian, rescued villagers of …

If God wants you to have a baby, he’ll give you one from regular fucking. Any other way to get a baby? That’s from Satan. Speaking at the end of three-day convention on diagnosing and treating infertility at the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI slammed artificial procreation and fertility treatments. Marriage was the only place to create a human being, he …

“Now, Maryland’s politicians unconscionably have chosen political expediency over the good of society–the fundamental charge of their office–by daring to redefine this sacred union between one man and one woman. Their action poses a grave threat to the future stability of the nuclear family and the society it anchors. The Archdiocese will continue to advocate for the preservation of both …

New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan was elevated to Cardinal at the Vatican this morning, joining the other 125 Cardinals under the age of 80 who will vote on the next Pope when Emperor Palpatine finally keels over. Dolan’s American entourage in Rome includes a reported throng of over 1000 fans, friends, and family, plus news crews from most of New …

Catholic Vote, the website whose blog is written by NOM Cultural Director (and blogger) Thomas Peters, has endorsed Rick Santorum. Peters, who tweets under the handle American Papist, is the son of the Vatican’s top American authority on Catholic legal dogma. While NOM co-founders Maggie Gallagher and Brian Brown are both Catholic, that Vatican front group has yet to make …

Did you know that the Ninth Circuit Court declared marriage itself to be unconstitutional? According to NOM, it did. Brown Brownshirt: I don’t know about you but my blood is boiling! Not only must our founding fathers be rolling over in their graves with the preposterous notion that marriage is unconstitutional, but the ruling is an affront to the millions …

Cardinal Edward Egan has withdrawn his apology for the child molestation scandals that were exposed when he was the Archbishop of New York. That 2002 letter of apology was read to all of the congregations under his control. A decade after that letter, the former archbishop of New York, and former bishop of Bridgeport, now describes the handling of the …

As soon-to-be Cardinal Timothy Dolan leads fifty priests on a visit to the “Holy Land,” Catholic blogs, news sites, and even some mainstream media are speculating that he could become the first American pope. I can’t see how a Pope Dolan could possibly be more anti-gay that the former Hitler Youth now sitting on the Vatican’s throne. But we may …

The couple is this NOM blog post is actually heterosexual. One man – one woman, as they love to say. This inconvenient fact has been pointed out by NOM’s commenters and several gay blogs, but NOM has never let the truth get in the way of their agenda.