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Vatican tries to hide Pope’s condom remarks

March 21, 2009

After some bitching about the response to the pope’s absurd remarks about how condom use can increase the spread of HIV, the Vatican edited the interview on their site to make it seem as though he was misinterpreted:
Taken aback by outrage worldwide, the Holy See altered the Pope’s remark yesterday to read that condoms merely [...]

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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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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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Pope Benedict: Don’t fire me, bro!

January 30, 2008

The Bishop of Rome has once again opened his mouth about science, this time declaring that science must be accompanied by research in “anthropology, philosophy and theology” to give insight into “man’s own mystery, because no science can say who man is, where he comes from or where he is going”, the Pope said.
Science, of [...]

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Pope Benedict: Don’t fire me, bro!

January 30, 2008

The Bishop of Rome has once again opened his mouth about science, this time declaring that science must be accompanied by research in “anthropology, philosophy and theology” to give insight into “man’s own mystery, because no science can say who man is, where he comes from or where he is going”, the Pope said.
Science, of [...]

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Pope gets censored?

January 18, 2008

What’s the first thing that pops into your head when someone says “censorship”? My first thought is that someone in a position of authority has misused that position to silence someone in a manner that is unfair and unjust. As you may have guessed from the title of the post, people are claiming [...]

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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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Because it’s fun to play ‘whack a pope’

January 4, 2008

I found this clip over at Atheist Media and just had to share it. Apparently Pope Benedict decided to take a swipe at Global Warming supporters back in December by declaring that their beliefs must be based on “firm evidence” and not dubious ideology. Marcus Brigstocke of The Late Edition had this to [...]

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Because it’s fun to play ‘whack a pope’

January 4, 2008

I found this clip over at Atheist Media and just had to share it. Apparently Pope Benedict decided to take a swipe at Global Warming supporters back in December by declaring that their beliefs must be based on “firm evidence” and not dubious ideology. Marcus Brigstocke of The Late Edition had this to [...]

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Because it’s fun to play ‘whack a pope’

January 4, 2008

I found this clip over at Atheist Media and just had to share it. Apparently Pope Benedict decided to take a swipe at Global Warming supporters back in December by declaring that their beliefs must be based on “firm evidence” and not dubious ideology. Marcus Brigstocke of The Late Edition had this to [...]

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