This relates to an earlier story about the dispute between Amnesty International and the Catholic Church. The Vatican urged Catholics to stop donating to Amnesty on the basis that Amnesty does not see the criminalization of women who choose to abort their pregnancy as a productive policy.
Ms Gilmore, Amnesty’s Deputy Secretary General in an earlier […]

A Roman Catholic priest whose racist and expletive-laden outburst against a group of skateboarders was filmed and posted on YouTube has been put on leave by church authorities in Australia.
The Reverend Monsignor Geoff Baron, the Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne, was secretly filmed on video swearing at and racially abusing the group of […]

The Catholic Church in Los Angeles has reached a financial deal with more than 500 people alleging sexual abuse by priests, the plaintiffs’ lawyer says.
It would be the biggest compensation payment the Church has made since the sexual abuse scandal exploded into public view in 2002.
It would take the total paid out by US dioceses […]

For anyone that’s read the Christopher Hitchens’ ‘The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice‘, some of this will be familiar.
Penn and Teller examine Mother Teresa’s life in one of their ‘bullshit’ episodes. I particularly enjoyed seeing Christopher Hitchens, cigarette and Scotch in hand, seemingly preferring to drink and smoke than continue the interview […]

His spiritual awakening goes back at least 30 years, to his time as an undergraduate at Oxford, but due to political considerations Tony Blair’s conversion to Catholicism has been a long time coming.
Interesting stuff. I think most of those living in Britain know that Blair was a very religious person, even if he kept it […]

*WARNING* Strong Stuff..
“Is it more of a sin for a priest to rape a child wearing a condom than without one?

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He really doesn’t pull any punches in this video, and I thought I was mean sometimes! Crikey. This is really hardcore atheism!!!

I’ve just finished listening to Julia Sweeney’s ‘Letting Go of God’ monologue.
It’s brilliant and had me in tears. She explores her journey from devout Catholicism to atheism. Atheists are often accused of being a little stale or taking atheism too seriously (although of course I disagree) but Julia’s monologue is incredibly funny and full of […]

Jesus had a son named Judah and was buried alongside Mary Magdalene, according to a new documentary by Hollywood film director James Cameron.
Cameron believes that three of the 10 coffins discovered near Jerusalem are that of Jesus and his family, including the mother of his son (Mary Magdelene) and that Jesus wasn’t resurrected.
Sounds […]

Good news!
But he added:
“We really need to find a decent compromise, because we want to keep the Catholic adoption agencies. They do a fantastic job in placing hard-to-place children.”
Fair enough. I’m not sure they need three of four years but they do place children so a compromise based on helping kids is fully understandable. […]

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
Richard Dawkins
As a child I was raised into Catholicism, attended a catholic school, was baptized, took my Holy Communion and was later confirmed into the church. The priests and monks were good people. […]