Catholicism
Vatican Will Excommunicate Women Priests
The Vatican stated that enforcement of it’s “no women allowed” policy will include excommunication for all women priests that are ordained, as well as the bishops that ordain them.
The Church’s explanation for not allowing women priests is that Jesus only had male apostles, and Church law says that only baptized males can be priests.
According to [...]
The Pope’s A-Comin’
Pope Benedict XVI is coming to America for the first time, from April 15-20, with visits scheduled in both New York and Washington, DC. Among the scheduled topics to touch upon (no pun intended), is the clergy sex abuse crisis that has caused so much damage and pain.
The pope’s got a very busy schedule, [...]
Blair: Religion Needs to Be Rescued
Religion must be rescued from extremism, as well as irrelevance, to be a positive force for good, according to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Blair, who has kept religion a personal and relatively private matter at many points of his public life, is now going public with his beliefs on faith.
Back when he was in [...]
Islam Largest Religion in the World
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Islam World’s Largest Religion
According to the Vatican, Islam is now the world’s largest religion, coming in at 19.2%. Roman Catholics are second at 17.4%. Sounds like it’s time for the Catholics to be fruitful and multiply to get their title back.
Expelled Documentary Explores Darwin, Intelligent Design, Religion Debate
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Pope in the News on Easter Weekend
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Vatican Security Worries Over bin Laden Tape
Anyone else worried that those of us not interested in fighting it, are about to be in the middle of a really ugly holy war?
Catholic Leader Attacks “Monstrous” Embryo Research
These idiot religionists really believe that if something has either “human” or “embryo” in the title, it [...]
Vatican Lists Seven New Sins
The Catholic Church is at it again, trying to update God’s eternal rules to match the modern times. This time, the Vatican has listed seven new sins that are more in line with today’s world.
The seven new “sins” are genetic modification, carrying out experiments on humans, polluting the environment, causing social injustice, causing poverty, [...]
Pope Challenges Satan to Fight
Pope Benedict XVI has ordered “exorcism squads to tackle the rise of Satanism,” according to a report in the Daily Mail. The Vatican has denied this claim.
According to the article, the Vatican is concerned with the rise of interest in the occult, and the “exorcistinchief”, Father Gabriele Amorth said,
“Thanks be to God, we have [...]
Pope Criticizes Atheism for Cruelty and Violations of Justice
In a pot-calling-the-kettle-black move of biblical proportions, Pope Benedict XVI said that atheism has led to some of the “greatest forms of cruelty and violations of justice” ever known.
The Pope, writing in his second encyclical, stated that the atheism that he said was spawned in the 19th and 20th centuries from Karl Marx “led to [...]
Catholic Church to Pay More Money for Sex Abuse
One-hundred and ten Eskimos will split $50 million to be paid by the Jesuit order of the Roman Catholic Church, as a settlement for alleged sexual abuse by priests and missionaries in remote Alaskan villages.
While many details are still unfinished, lawyers for the Jesuits did confirm that a settlement has been reached. The settlement [...]
Nun Pleads in Sex Abuse Case
Well, here’s a new one. A Roman Catholic nun in Illinios pleaded no contest to multiple counts of indecent behavior with a child, for her role in hundreds of sexual encounters with two males in the 1960’s.
The two men are now adults and have told authorities of the incidents that took place when one [...]
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