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Are Catholics about to create their first modern gay saint?

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

THE Catholic Church is about to dig up a body. Not any old cadaver, of course, but one of great symbolic value to this grisly religion: the corpse of The Venerable John Henry Cardinal Newman, who was buried in a small cemetery in August 1890. Yes, after he died, in case you were wondering.
Rome – [...]

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Blasphemy heads for oblivion in Ireland

Sunday, July 13, 2008

MORE bad news for the Catholic Church in Ireland, which has suffered a number of setbacks in this increasingly sceptical country: the offence of blasphemy is likely to be dropped from the Irish Constitution.
According to the Irish Independent, the joint committee on the Constitution said last Friday that changes to the Constitution in the areas [...]

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A little fun for the weekend

Saturday, July 12, 2008

THE zany story that broke this week about the hijacking in Florida of a Jesus cracker – or Corpus Crispie – and the fear of Catholics that it might be “abused” by its kidnapper – got us wondering what indignities Freethinker readers might heap on a blessed Eucharist, should they ever decide to take one [...]

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‘Don’t annoy Catholics’ law annoys Australians

Thursday, July 10, 2008

PASS an annoyingly stupid law, and people will soon rally to show their contempt for it – as they did yesterday in Sydney, Australia.
Wearing T-shirts that read “Pope Go Homo” and “The pope is wrong, put a condom on!,” a group of demonstrators poked fun at a new Australian law aimed at protecting Catholic participants [...]

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Catholics go crackers over Christ Crispie kidnapping

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

TALK about taking the biscuit … in what must be the daftest incident of the year – if not the century – a Florida University student is being crucified by Catholics for kidnapping the Body of Christ.
Not the ACTUAL corpse, long since turned to dust of course, but the symbolic flesh of the Saviour, as [...]

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Well said, Yasmin!

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

ISLAM takes a lot of stick in the Freethinker – all of it well-deserved. Yet, believe it or not, we do strive to find something positive to report about Muslims – and once in a while we strike gold.
Which is why we name Yasmin Alibhai-Brown as our Hero of the Week.
Alibhai-Brown is that rare variety [...]

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The Vatican is pissed off over Papal fashion reports

Saturday, June 28, 2008

REPORTS, with accompanying photos, that suggest that Herr Ratzinger is a fashion queen have got up the Vatican’s nose, big time.
No, they huffily say, those camp red pumps are not Prada, and the silly Santa hat is actually a relic that dates back to the Middle Ages.
Rather like the Pope himself.
The Vatican grew so tired [...]

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Vatican gets its knickers in a twist over new Dan Brown movie

Monday, June 16, 2008

STILL FUMING over the “blasphemous” film adaptation of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, the Catholic Church has banned filming – in the Vatican and inside all other churches in Rome – of Angels & Demons, an earlier Brown thriller now in production.
According to Worldwide Religious News, the Vatican has concluded that the latest Brown [...]

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Gay? It’s a burden from God, says Catholic half-wit

Sunday, June 8, 2008

CATHOLIC Lena Wojdan is a Warsaw-based psychologist who, unlike Iris Robinson’s pet psychiatrist who thinks gays can be “turned around”, believes instead that homosexuality is “a burden from God” which people must learn to accept.
They [homosexuals] need to accept that God created them as they are. This is something that they have been given to [...]

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Gay rights legislation is ‘a secular attack on the Catholic Church’ says bigoted Labour MP

Saturday, June 7, 2008

LABOUR MP Jim Dobbin has described as “a tragedy” the decision by a Catholic adoption agency to stop finding new homes for children because of the Government’s new gay equality laws.
According to the Telegraph, the “faith-based” Catholic Children’s Rescue Service is to stop doing work it has carried out since 1886, and has accused ministers [...]

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