Scandal in Ireland as woman dies in Galway ‘after being denied abortion’
Savita Halappanavar, who was 17 weeks pregnant, died of septicaemia a week after presenting with back pain on 21 October at University hospital in Galway, where she was found to be miscarrying. But he said these requests were denied because a foetal heartbeat was still present and they were told at one point: “This [...]
Ex-altar boy testifies about sexual abuse by Philadelphia priests | Reuters
(Reuters) – A 23-year-old man testified on Wednesday in the child sex abuse case against the Philadelphia Catholic Archdiocese that he was molested by two priests, one of whom prosecutors said had been known to church officials as a sex abuser years earlier. The testimony came at the trial of Monsignor William Lynn, former secretary [...]
Get Down On Your Knees Dear Father
KICK THE CROSS Kicking the catholics out of Ireland, the Isle looks so much greener now, good job lads and lassie’s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AretjSNdfKQ&feature=share
Forced castrations reportedly found in Roman Catholic care
Underage sexual abuse victims were castrated in Dutch Roman Catholic psychiatric wards in the 1950s, according to the Rotterdam-based newspaper NRC Handelsblad. Castration was performed on young men who were thought to be homosexual, but also as a means of punishing those who blew the whistle on abusers, the paper quotes sources as saying. NRC [...]
Logo Fail
From: http://imgur.com/r/atheism/gegqk Text from image: “This is an actual logo designed in 1973 for the Catholic Church’s Archdiocesan Youth Commission. It even won an award from the Art Directors Club of Los Angeles.”
300,000 babies stolen from their parents and sold for adoption by the Catholic church in Spain
Up to 300,000 Spanish babies were stolen from their parents and sold for adoption over a period of five decades, a new investigation reveals. The children were trafficked by a secret network of doctors, nurses, priests and nuns in a widespread practice that began during General Franco’s dictatorship and continued until the early Nineties. Hundreds [...]
Bishop Robert W. Finn
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bishop-Robert-W-Finn/34746172122 This is where I consider the beginning of the end for the Catholic church, where we find not just a member of the church but a high ranking individual and the local diocese being scrutinized by the blind eye of Justice. Something Justice has not only been blind to but has been silenced for [...]
Religiously Affiliated Hospitals Gamble With Mothers’ Lives
In a medical emergency, the last thing we should be worried about is whether a hospital is going to put ideology ahead of the care we need to protect our lives and health. But if anti-choice lawmakers get their way, women and their loved ones will have to watch their backs. The House is slated [...]
Child-raping priest blamed his 4-year-old victim
This priest raped a four-year-old, and in court blamed the child for sexually pursuing him. “On a couple of occasions, I felt I was sexually harassed,” Cooke reportedly testified. “I think there is psychological evidence children even in their younger years can become interested in sex.” Now he’s out of prison and back in church, [...]
Irish priest blames mothers for priests sexually abusing their children
A Wexford priest has said that the wives and mothers of those sexually abused by clergy men implicated the cover up of cleric al abuse in Ireland. Wives and mothers had “failed miserably to deal with the abuse of their children,” he said. In an article in the Irish Catholic Newspaper, Fr Paddy Banville of Ferns Diocese wrote [...]
