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What role celibacy?
There’s been a lot of speculation about the role of the vow of celibacy in the priest child rape scandals. It ranges from the irresponsible (suggesting that rape is the result of sexual frustration, instead of the will to dominate) to the more interesting (that celibacy contorts sexuality, or that…
Patrick Kennedy refused communion; 90-year-old grandmother stops donating to Catholic Church
It was just revealed in a NYT report that in 2007, Rep. Patrick Kennedy was told to stop receiving Communion by a Rhode Island bishop because of the congressman’s public stance on “moral issues.” Bishop Thomas Tobin divulged details of his confidential exchange with Kennedy after the Democratic lawmaker told…
Bill Donohue: gay adoption “against nature,” Catholic Church has homo, not pedophilia problem
Every time this man opens his trap, it’s a sewer of BS that flows out.…
Pope Benedict lifts excommunication of Holocaust denier
Can we ever reach the bottom of the sickness and hypocrisy with this man? Here’s yet another reason that the influence of Pope Benedict is meaningful — it extends beyond the spiritual bigotry — it extends into political bigotry, ignorance and gross insensitivity as well. Readers often ask why anyone…
Catholic church continues PR task to give Mormons cover on Prop 8
Blah, blah, blah — the defenses for Prop 8 support keep on coming and are offensive, bigoted, ignorant — and wholly expected. It’s nice to see the Catholic church, as a “mainstream” religion, accept that its role in the battle to pass Prop 8 was to give the Mormon church…
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