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Too Many Lawyers
I spent my teenage years in Winston-Salem, NC, the town named after two brands of cigarettes. Winston is the home of RJ Reynolds Tobacco company. (Also the home of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts. “We’ll kill you somehow,” that was our motto.) … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Current Events
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Donohue on The Ledge
Matthew Chapman is the writer and director of The Ledge, a movie that opened last week that is being heavily marketed to atheists. Via Chapman’s blog I see that Bill Donohue is irked that atheists have produced a movie with … Continue reading
Posted in Atheism, Catholicism
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Catholics in the "Historic View"
Part of the exchange between Joanna Brooks and Warren Cole Smith that I wrote about yesterday caught my attention. When asked if he considers Catholics dangerous, Smith states, “The historic view of Christianity is that the essential views of the … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Christianity, Politics
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New Study of Catholic Scandal
Since the furor over the Catholic sex abuse cases started, many conservative Catholics have pointed out that many of the cases happened in the ’60s and pointed their finger at the spirit of the times. The argument goes that the … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Current Events
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News reported by the BBC today says that about 600 Anglicans (Episcopalians) are about to follow the 900 or so who’ve already converted and celebrate Catholic Mass at Easter, in protest at the decision of the Church of England to … Continue reading
The Catholic Remnant
According to Mary E. Hunt at Religion Dispatches, the Catholic Church is cracking down on dissent within the ranks. Slowly and ineffectively, but they’re trying. Meanwhile, the Church is bleeding money in America, and losing members in Europe. Just recently … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Current Events
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No Belgian Church Escaped Child Sex Abuse
A recent investigation has found that “No Belgian church escaped sex abuse“: Investigators, working with the support of the Belgian Catholic Church received 475 complaints of child abuse committed in the 1950s through to the late 1980s by Catholic clergy. … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Hypocrisy, Where is God?
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Demons on the Discovery Channel
As the Catholic Church continues to take well deserved heat for its pedophilia scandal and its patriarchal policies, I suspect that we’ll see it try to improve its image through clever use of the media. Confronting the misdeeds head-on won’t … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism
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Topless Striptease Acrobats Perform for Pope
Best title evar for the best Pope video evar: Gotta love the nuns waving handkerchiefs! The priests and the nuns can both get something out of this performance. I guess this is what they sit around and do at the … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Humor, Videos
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