San Francisco’s Archbishop’s Twenty-First Century Culture War Crusade Is All...
During the one and only debate between Republican candidate Ronald Reagan and President Jimmy Carter in the presidential campaign of 1980, Carter went off on Reagan about his record on Medicare. With...
View ArticleRemembering Father Bill O'Donnell: Anti-War & Pro-Labor Activist Arrested...
Wherever little children are hungry and cry, Wherever people ain't free. Wherever men are fightin' for their rights, That's where I'm a-gonna be, Ma. That's where I'm a-gonna be. -- The Ballad of Tom...
View ArticlePope Francis Compares Being Transgender To The Destruction Caused By Nuclear...
I'm really worried now that the best hope we've ever had in the Catholic Church for reform is quickly dying.From Gay Star News:'Let's think of the nuclear arms, of the possibility to annihilate in a...
View ArticleIndians 101: Honoring and Celebrating Genocide
Cultural genocide is a concept expressed by many Native Americans to describe the deliberate destruction of American Indian languages, religions, ways of dress and housing, and interpersonal relations...
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Religion's Latest Treatment Of LGBT People
We begin with the Religion of Respect, Compassion and Sensitivity:The debate over the legislation heated up in the days leading to the vote, with opponents and supporters holding separate protests. The...
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Hellraisers Journal: Miners of Colorado "starving in the golden West." No...
Don't let the ministers bother you, we know the Lord Jesus Christ as well as they do. They don't let us go into their church conferences and they have no right to come into ours. -Mother...
View ArticleCatholic School Teacher Reinstated After Anti-Gay Rant While LGBT Faculty...
Patricia Jannuzzi, a religion teacher at Immaculata High School in New Jersey, posted on Facebook that gays "want to reengineer western civ (sic) into a slow extinction" as part of their "agenda." This...
View ArticlePope Francis Responds To Recep Tayyip Erdogan
I've decided to try my hand at humor:ROME, VATICAN CITY- Pope Francis has launched a scathing attack on President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan regarding the latter's denunciation of the Pope's...
View ArticleEl Salvador Jails Women for Miscarriages and Stillbirths
The country of El Salvador is sentencing woman who experience miscarriages or stillborn births up to 50 years in prison due to prosecutors who accuse women of causing the death of their fetus or...
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Pope Francis canonizes two 19th century Palestinian nuns; praises Abbas as...
Saint Marie-Aphonsine Danil Ghattas, canonized by Pope Francis May 17, 2015. Sunday in St. Peter's Square in Rome, Pope Francis canonized two 19th century Palestinian nuns, Marie Alphonsine Ghattas and...
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Pope Francis will help determine the fates of Argentina's 'disappeared'
During Argentina's brutal military dictatorship (1976-1983), state security forces abducted citizens at will for interrogation and torture. More than 30,000 of those who vanished into centros de...
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Dublin Catholic Archbishop: Church Needs a Reality Check
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin says he voted no, but recognizes that this election represents a reality check for the Catholic Church. Ireland, one of the world's most predominantly Catholic...
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Taking Marco Rubio at his word, Republicans are clear and present danger to...
Pope Francis You might've seen earlier Sen. Marco Rubio's latest nonsense:“We are at the water’s edge of the argument that mainstream Christian teaching is hate speech because today we’ve reached the...
View ArticleNE-Gov Vetos Death Penalty Repeal Bill
Governor Pete Ricketts (R-Nebr.) today vetoed LB-268, the bill introduced by state senator Ernie Chambers to repeal the death penalty.LB-268 passed its final reading with a coalition of Democratic and...
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Senior cardinal says Ireland gay marriage vote worse than paganism
Yer all pagans! Cardinal Raymond Burke, best known for getting demoted from his high-post at the Vatican and being put into a "largely ceremonial" role as cardinal patron of the Knights and Dames of...
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Car Trip to Germany: Met Mayor and Churches, Toured UNESCO Site, Ate Food.
Unbeknownst to us, they sell food here in Germany.Several people from my last diary told me to post a food picture, so here is a typical dish from Schwäbisch Gmünd, where we are currently staying....
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Pope Francis sets historic meeting with LGBT activists in South America
Pope Francis continues to beef up his progressive credentials Pope Francis, Pope of Popes, is at it again. He is on a roll of progressive change and seems intent on leading the Catholic Church in a new...
View ArticleArchbishop Nienstedt Resigns
The head of the scandal-wracked, and now criminally-charged, Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis stepped down today.I leave with a clear conscience I don't doubt that. But you shouldn't be...
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Gay high school student challenges homophobic Catholic school test answer
According to 17-year-old Jake Midura, he has always known he was gay. He struggled with it and then courageously came out to his parents at the beginning of his junior year in high school. In general,...
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Catholic Church Exorcises Satan Out Of Mexico Because The Gays
Here is something that the Catholic hierarchy in the USA hasn't tried yet -- at least I haven't heard about it. In Mexico, they have exorcised Satan right out of all of Mexico. Yes, they have ......
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