Catholic Bishop slams Catholic HHS Secretary Becerra for pro-gay stance
Joe Biden is not the only liberal Catholic politician who has drawn the ire of the American Catholic Church authorities. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary, Xavier Becerra, is now getting grief...
View ArticleL.A. Archbishop José Gomez Cranks Up Culture Wars: Attacks Biden and Black...
“I believe the best way for the Church to understand the new social justice movements, is to understand them as pseudo-religions, and even replacements and rivals to traditional Christian...
View ArticleCatholic Archdioceses Declare War on Transgender People
The Catholic Church with its history of sexual abuse of children and covering it up, financial shenanigans, shuttered churches and dwindling numbers of parishioners, backing conservative politicians,...
View ArticleLondon: Teachers Strike Over Ban On Gay Author Discussing His Book At...
Teachers at a school in Croydon, South London are on strike. They are protesting a ban on gay author Simon James Green’s visit on World Book Day. He was due to discuss his novel “Noah Can’t Even” which...
View ArticleRep. MT Greene: Satan controls Catholic church & tricks women into...
Not long after a court hearing in Atlanta, Georgia, where Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed she couldn’t “recall” whether or not she called for then President Donald Trump to institute martial law...
View ArticlePope Francis tells Patriarch Kirill to not be "Putin's Altar Boy"
There is an old expression- " Fools rush in where angels fear to tread," so I hesitate to bring up anything to do with the Catholic church on this site. But I, a gay cradle Catholic who has been in...
View ArticleAnd they wonder why people are leaving the Catholic Church...
I just read an article from USA today that says the San Francisco archbishop has declared that Catholic Democrat Nancy Pelosi can no longer receive Communion in the Catholic Church in San Francisco...
View ArticleThe Vatican is writing American Law.
Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, I’ve been assailing the six justices who did so because they imposed their religious law on all Americans. Six of the seven Catholic justices made all...
View ArticleDespite Kansas Drubbing, Anti-Abortion Activists Crank Up Plans to Make...
In his provocative 2004 New York Times bestselling book, “What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America,”* Thomas Frank didn’t mince words, exploring the rise of populist...
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More evidence that separation of church and state is essential for democracy
Taken Under Fascism, Spain’s ‘Stolen Babies’ Are Learning the TruthThousands of Spanish children were taken from hospitals and sold to wealthy Catholic families. This is Ana Belén Pintado’s story.This...
View ArticleColumbus was just one symptom of 2,000 years of the Catholic Church's brutal...
Today many Italian-Americans celebrate their heritage. Bearing that in mind, let me say that you cannot hold Italian-Americans accountable for the crimes of the Mafia — even though that criminal...
View ArticlePope Francis names successor to far right Trumper bishop Tobin in the Diocese...
Bishop Tobin of the Diocese of Providence has been closing in on his sell by date, his 75th birthday. Pope John Paul II created a rule that all bishops hitting their 75th must submit their resignation....
View ArticleAnti-Abortion Priest Frank Pavone Defrocked by the Vatican
First post, so no links etc, but wanted to share this good news! Read it on ABC. Former Father Frank Pavone, head of Priests for Life, has been defrocked by the Vatican for “blasphemous communications...
View ArticleBrief Comment on Pope Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI Death
Pope Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI (formerly Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger) died at age 95. He was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 19 April 2005 until his resignation...
View ArticlePope Francis tells Catholic German bishops to stop doing the right thing
“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” 1 Corinthians 13:13In a Tuesday interview with the Associated Press, Pope Francis delighted empathetic Catholics...
View ArticleThe battle to protect those who kill and rape children continues: Part 1 Drag...
Thisthehill.com/…So a bill in Arkansas, banning men dressing as women from appearing in public, upon which Sarah Huckabee Sanders is licking her chops at the opportunity to not only sign, but get in...
View ArticleWomen: Let's Conduct a Mass Sex Strike Against the Gestation Slavery...
There has always been a war on women, in the same way there’s always been a war on Nature and non-human animals.These wars arise because humans, like other primates, organize societies based on...
View ArticleEx-Trump shill and defrocked priest accused of serial groping
Four women who worked for ex-Catholic Priest Frank Pavone have accused him of sexual aggression. And groping is not this bigot's only exercise in misogyny. He is the long-time director of the fanatical...
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View ArticleMedievalist Catholic Bishop Tobin Finally Gone From Deep Blue Rhode Island
John Paul II put a rule in that all bishops must retire at 75. This was seen as a way to clean house of Vatican II bishops. Francis has used that rule to clean house of holdovers from two conservative...
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📌This Week in the War On/For Women - Breathe. And dive in.
xxYouTube Video from a TheConversation article on LongCovid care that also describes “belly breathing”: inhaling leisurely through the nose and exhaling slightly more leisurely through the mouth...
View ArticleCatholic clergy abuse report could prompt lawsuits, changes to Illinois law
Illinois' attorney general has ended a five-year investigation into sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy in the state, releasing a nearly 700-page report that revealed the problem was far worse...
View ArticleCatholic Church Dioceses, Swamped By Incidents of Sexual Abuse of Children,...
It has been more than two decades since the Boston Globe investigation into the Roman Catholic Church revealed that scores of priests had sexually molested children, while Catholic Church officials...
View ArticleIf conservatives cared about grooming, they'd be protesting the Catholic Church
Why aren’t Republicans demanding to make churches adults-only venues? Why aren’t they demanding the Boys Scouts be disbanded? Because their culture war against the LGBTQ+ community has nothing to do...
View ArticleFor clergy abuse survivors, Sinead O'Connor's protest that offended so many...
In 1992, Sinéad O’Connor destroyed a photo of Pope John Paul II on U.S. national television. The pushback was swift, turning the late Irish singer-songwriter’s protest of sex abuse in the Catholic...
View ArticleDon’t Listen to “Evil Woman” Hillary Clinton, says Catholic Bishop
From the article:Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas sent a warning to Americans about listening to Hillary Clinton late last year. The former Secretary of State and two-time Democratic...
View ArticlePope says 'backward' U.S. conservatives have replaced faith with ideology
Pope Francis has blasted the “backwardness” of some conservatives in the U.S. Catholic Church, saying they have replaced faith with ideology and that a correct understanding of Catholic doctrine allows...
View ArticleAre America’s Catholic Bishops Embracing Christian Nationalism?
In the Introduction to her new book, Playing God: American Catholic Bishops And The Far Right (Melville House, 2023), veteran reporter Mary Jo McConahay, writes: “The euphoria with which American...
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View ArticleHow To Fight Back Against MAGA Extremists
I turned on MSNBC about a month ago on a Sunday morning, only to see a show being rebroadcast from a recent previous evening program. It wasn’t a problem, or so I thought, as I hadn’t seen the previous...
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Chaos Agents Everywhere
I received a WhatsApp message the other day asking me to sign a petition demanding the Obama Foundation cancel the scholarship of a student for posting the above commentary on a photo of students...
View ArticleVatican Cardinal sentenced to 5½ years for multi-million dollar embezzlement
Until 2018, Cardinal Angelo Becciu was the Substitute for General Affairs at the Vatican’s Secretariat of State. In plain English, he was at the apex of the Catholic Church’s bureaucratic hierarchy....
View ArticleChristian rift widens over pope's altered stance on same-sex couples
When a story appears in the media talking about the views of Christians, it’s almost certain to be focused on conservative evangelical Christians who support Donald Trump. More often than not, that...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: One week down, 51 to go!
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View ArticleNFL kicker's commencement speech slams LGBTQ, feminism, contraception,...
Harrison Butker is a placekicker for the Kansas City Chiefs and a miserable human being. NFL fans will probably know him. Everyone else will likely not. However, after his commencement speech at...
View ArticlePope Francis says America's Catholic Bishops have "a suicidal attitude"
Note: The reader should take nothing in the following essay as a criticism of any individual Catholic and their faith. The Constitution, and more importantly decency and respect, protect every...
View ArticleNancy Pelosi being punished in SF for standing up for women's rights
Ok, This actually happened on May 20th, but I am slow to learn these things. Thanks for my sometimes checking on the braying of the right wing, I finally found out about this issue today.Let’s example...
View ArticleFrom cultural genocide to the Dobbs decision, religious tyranny is America's...
We think of bullying as a school-age evil. But it does not stop when we grow up. Gerrymandering and voter ID laws are the acts of people with power pushing the powerless around. And much of organized...
View ArticleThe European Witch Craze
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View ArticleOvernight News Digest: Friday Night around the world.
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View ArticlePreview of Trump's Inauguration Prayer
It is reported that Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York will be leading the opening prayer at the second inauguration of Donald Trump, on January 20, 2025.Cardinal Dolan will be doing the work of the...
View ArticleWill Trump and Vance Try to Pick the Next Pope?
A few days ago, Pope Francis was hospitalized for what is turning out to be a complex illness. Pope's health a 'complex clinical situation', Vatican says. Francis is 88 years old and has been having...
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View ArticlePope Francis has died
The Pope is Dead. Less than 24 hours after receiving U.S. Vice President JD Vance the 266th bishop of Rome and leader of the Catholic Church has died on Easter Monday (7:35 AM CET), aged 88.Born Jorge...
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The "Golden Age of Greatness"; Ann Telnaes Wins Pulitzer — The Week in...
xThe furthest thing from a Pope, or even a Christian. Please share #laloalcaraz cartoons! See more at GoComics.com/laloalcaraz[image or embed]— Lalo Alcaraz (@laloalcaraz.bsky.social) May 4, 2025 at...
View ArticleNew Pope Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago. Pope Leo XIV.
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Trump loses another election
Catholic cardinals on Thursday elected a new pope—and it's not Donald Trump.After Pope Francis died, Trump joked that he would "like to be pope," and even posted an AI-generated image of himself...
View ArticlePope Leo XIV, the first "American Pope"
On the second day of the conclave, the cardinals convened in the Sistine Chapel decided on the new pope. He is Robert Francis Prevost, born in Chicago in 1955 and thus the first pope to be born in the...
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What Pope Leo XIV has said about LGBTQ+ people, immigration and abortion
Robert Francis Prevost, the first American pope, will now lead more than a billion Catholics around the world — including 53 million American Catholics.By Mariel Padilla for The 19thAfter a little more...
View ArticleUPDATE: Robert Prevost (Leo XIV) does NOT deserve a pass for shielding child...
While it is good news that right wing fanatics in the Catholic Church didn't prevail in the election of the new Pope, I do want to point out that Robert Prevost, while head of the Augustinian order in...
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