The Catholic church has been having a rough time of it lately. What with the pedophile priest scandals around the world and the increasing number of Catholics leaving the faith in the U.S. and Europe. Now they have more bad news coming out of Brazil which was once considered . . . → Read More: Catholic church shrinking in Brazil as more become non-religious and secular.
The Catholic Church likes to promote itself as a beacon of morality in a fallen world. Shame the reality isn’t anything close to what they’d like you to believe:
‘Dan Rather Reports’ Exposes Coordinated Effort by the Catholic Church to Protect Assets From Abuse Victims
Apparently the Catholic solution to any problem it comes across is to beat the shit out of it. That was the approach taken—in addition to sexual abuse and rape—with Irish children in the Church’s care for decades on end and now it appears to be the preferred solution at a Serbian Catholic drug rehab center:
It’s taken nine years and the final 2,600 page report goes into detail on the systematic abuse and rape of children living in reform schools run by the Catholic church in Ireland:
Catholic Church shamed by Irish abuse report – Yahoo! News
Apparently the pedophilia scandal didn’t make things clear enough for the priests in Ohio as the Church felt it necessary to put out a do and don’t list:
CINCINNATI (AP)—The Archdiocese of Cincinnati has issued a detailed list of inappropriate behaviors for priests, saying they should not kiss, tickle or wrestle children.
At last we find out who’s really running the Catholic church:
I have no idea what’s actually going on here, but it’s pretty amusing just the same. Found over at this Icelandic (I believe) blog and originally discovered through Fark.com.
If ever there was a sure sign that the movie version of The Golden Compass has had most of its anti-religion tone ripped out by its roots it’s the fact that two Catholic film critics who write for the Catholic News Service are giving the film high praise. Needless to say some folks aren’t happy . . . → Read More: How’s this for irony? Catholic film ciritics liked “The Golden Compass.”
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