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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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Holy crap! Atheists and gays are the Devil’s agents – and so are those who do yoga, says barmy Catholic exorcist

Monday, May 26, 2008

THE Freethinker’s Booby of the Week prize goes to Father Jeremy Davis, 73, exorcist of the Archdiocese of Westminster, who warned that atheism was becoming a key cause of demonic influence in the world.
Spirits inspiring atheism are those that hate God.
The Luton-based Catholic priest – a former medical doctor who was ordained in 1974 and [...]

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Interfering Catholic Church is a drain on Italian taxpayers

Monday, May 19, 2008

CATHOLICISM’S Big Gun – the sinister fashionista Pope Benedict XVI – is increasingly getting up the noses of Italians.
Instead of the usual display of deference to which he is accustomed, Ratzinger sparked a protest yesterday when he made a brief stop in Genoa, where around 1,000 people marched through the industrial outskirts of the [...]

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Catholics disowns bishop who condemned sexual abuse in the Church

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

THERE was bound to be trouble when retired Sydney bishop Geoffrey Robinson published Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church last August, because it told the Catholic Church things they just did not want to know.
So instead of dealing with the issues he raised in his book, it decided instead to disown him.
According to [...]

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