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German Bishop blames atheists for Nazism

April 13, 2009

The bishop of Augsburg had a special message to share with his flock this past Sunday. It was atheists who were behind the killing machine known to the world as Nazi Germany.
From Spiegel Online:
A Catholic German bishop has come under fire for his remarks condemning atheists. In a sermon given on Easter Sunday, the bishop [...]

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Vatican backs down, admits attacks justified?

March 19, 2009

The Vatican has decided to backtrack on it’s approval of the behaviour of a Brazilian archbishop who really shined his ass in the case of a nine year old rape victim receiving an abortion.
Archbishop Rino Fisichella, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, said the excommunication not only of the medical team but also of [...]

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Pope: Condoms contribute to African AIDS Epidemic

March 17, 2009

His Holiness decided to share this gem with the planet:
“You can’t resolve it [the AIDS epidemic in Africa] with the distribution of condoms,” the pope told reporters aboard the Alitalia plane headed to Yaounde. “On the contrary, it [the use of condoms] increases the problem.”
He also stated that the Roman Catholic Church is at the [...]

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Vatican defends excommunication in Brazil

March 9, 2009

The Vatican has decided to weigh in on the excommunication of the child rape victim’s mother and doctors in Brazil:
A senior Vatican cleric has defended the excommunication of the mother and doctors of a nine-year-old girl who had an abortion in Brazil after being raped.
Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, head of the Catholic church’s Congregation for [...]

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Church excommunicates child rape victim’s mother

March 6, 2009

The Catholic church is still shining it’s ass about the nine year old rape victim’s abortion which a lawyer for the church recently referred to as murder. They’ve now stated that they’ve excommunicated the girl’s mother and others over it:
A Brazilian archbishop says all those who helped a child rape victim secure an abortion are [...]

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Irony meters explode worldwide

January 30, 2009

I missed this when it first came out, but a top official at the Vatican had this to say about President Obama getting rid of the global gag rule:
The same day, the secular Milan daily Corriere della Sera published an interview with a top Vatican official lashing out at the new U.S. President. Archbishop Rino [...]

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All magic-ed out, time for a new spin

September 11, 2008

Looks like Lourdes is running out of magic despite relaxed rules on what is and is not magic.
When Bishop Jacques Perrier said the Roman Catholic Church would ease some criteria for miracles, skeptics foresaw a wave of pious believers claiming they had been healed at the famous shrine in his diocese of Lourdes.
New categories were [...]

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Might as well report that the sky is blue

May 30, 2008

Can someone tell me why it’s news that the Catholic church is still a bigoted institution? For example, a day or so after California declared that it was unconstitutional to ban homosexuals from legally marrying, it was considered “news” when Pope Ratface declared that the Catholic church still considers homosexuality to be icky.
And today [...]

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Pope Benedict refuses to fire rapists, encourages prayers instead

January 8, 2008

Yes, you read that right.  The pope has essentially refused to enact any policies that will, at the very least, make the Catholic church less friendly to sex predators.   Instead he’s chosen to  state that Catholics need to pray for deliverance from the rapists in their midst.  They’re also to pray that their god will [...]

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