U.S. News – Oregon mom sued by church over online criticism
An Oregon mother of seven is being sued for defamation by her former church over critical comments she made online. Julie Anne Smith, a stay-at-home mom who home-schools her children, said church members began shunning her and her family after they left Beaverton Grace Bible Church almost four years ago. She took to the Web [...]
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
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.”
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 [...]
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, [...]
Becky Fisher teaches Singapore kids to raise the dead
Becky Fischer, the conservative Pentecostal Christian pastor well-known for running the controversial Jesus Camp, went to a Singapore church to speak with kids. Part 1 of 2 Part 2 of 2
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 [...]
Woman beats son for refusing to go to church
A Woodstock woman was arrested by police after being called to a home by her 17-year-old son over the weekend. Police in Woodstock said the 17-year-old boy called Saturday morning, saying his mother was beating him with a belt and would not stop, because he wouldn’t go to church. When they arrived at the home, [...]
