CRIME bosses in Italy and beyond have apparently been ‘exploiting’ images of the Virgin Mary to further their criminal activities, and the Vatican has had enough this abuse. So, according to the Huff Post, a “think tank” was launched yesterday (Friday) to stop organised crime from exploiting the Virgin Mary “for their own illicit ends.” It was launched at a conference called “Liberating Mary from the Mafia” – and has Pope Francis’s blessing. The move was prompted by: The historic… Read more
September 19, 2020
Vatican sets up outfit to ‘liberate’ the Virgin Mary from mobsters
September 19, 2020 By Barry Duke
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September 19, 2020
Justice Ginsburg is dead. ‘We hope she repented’ says Catholic bigot.
September 19, 2020 By Barry Duke
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REACTING to news that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, above, died yesterday aged 87, John-Henry Westen, co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of far-right LifeSiteNews, said: ‘May God have mercy on her soul.’ He added: Justice Ginsburg was known for her friendship with the late Justice Antonin Scalia, a pro-life Catholic who attended the Traditional Latin Mass. We hope that his faith had an impact on her later in her life, and that she repented of her pro-abortion activism at the end…. Read more
September 18, 2020
Gay news outlet offers thoughts & prayers for ‘anti-mask’ pastor
September 18, 2020 By Barry Duke
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PAUL Van Noy, senior pastor at Candlelight Christian Fellowship in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, is not a well man. In fact, the COVID-19 conspiracy theorist – pictured above with his wife Brenda – is so ill after contracting coronavirus that LGBT+ news outlet Queerty felt a twinge of sympathy for for him – even though he is certainly is no friend of The Gays. Queerty’s Graham Gremore today wrote: We pray Van Noy makes a full recovery from COVID-19. And, once… Read more
September 18, 2020
‘Jackass’ priest blamed after a second botched baptism is exposed
September 18, 2020 By Barry Duke
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CATHOLIC blogger Fr John Zuhlsdorf, above, this week urged Catholic priests to review, wherever possible, videos of their baptisms after it was revealed that a second American priest – Zachary Boazman, inset – had been invalidly baptised. His advice came in the wake of news that Oklahoma City’s Fr Boazman had been invalidly baptised in 1992 when a officiating priest said “WE baptise you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” instead of… Read more
September 17, 2020
In a rare display of unity, UK faith leaders slam gay ‘cures’
September 17, 2020 By Barry Duke
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*** WARNING: This report contains a terrifying image of Andrea Minichiello Williams *** CHRISTIAN, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh and Buddhists leaders have put aside doctrinal differences over conversion therapies, and this week demanded in an open letter that the UK government delivers on its 2018 pledge to outlaw a practice inflicted on members of LGBT+ communities by mainly faith groups. The group of signatories is headed by Paul Bayes, above, Bishop of Liverpool and chair of the Ozanne Foundation Bayes… Read more
September 17, 2020
‘Religion and politics don’t mix.’ Mayor scraps chaplaincy post.
September 17, 2020 By Barry Duke
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A MOVE by the new Mayor of the Kent borough of Swale to scrap the post of council chaplain has been described as ‘rubbish’ by the priest whose services have been dispensed with. The reason given by Mayor Paul Stephen, above, for ending a 50-year-long tradition of having a chaplain was that post does not align with the council’s policies on equality and diversity. According to this report, Stephen, above, said: Following last year’s elections the coalition passed an equality… Read more
September 16, 2020
BLM co-founder: Supporting gay rights is not ‘destroying religion’
September 16, 2020 By Barry Duke
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US TELEVANGELIST Pat Robertson, 90, has been slapped down hard by a co-founder of Black Lives Matter, Patrisse Cullors, for his recent rant in which he accused the organisation of leading ‘a lesbian, anti-family, anti-capitalist Marxist revolution.’ Cullors, above, said the words of the mad old fool, inset, were: Completely inflammatory and dangerous. To insinuate that our movement is trying to destroy Christianity is disgraceful and outright offends our Christian siblings who are a part of our movement against racial… Read more
September 16, 2020
Christian militias must prepare for another American civil war
September 16, 2020 By Barry Duke
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NEITHER the American War of Independence nor the civil war delivered freedom and equality for all, so third war is ‘inevitable,’ says evangelical pastor Rick Joyner, above, who heads MorningStar Ministries in North Carolina. According to Newsweek, Joyner – a guest this week on The Jim Bakker Show – urged Christians to “mobilise” to fight a civil war against left-wing activists. Joyner, who recently described Black Lives Matter protesters as the “KKK of this time”, said: We’re in time for… Read more
September 15, 2020
Who would Jesus vote for? ‘Unkind’ Trump or ‘virtuous’ Biden.
September 15, 2020 By Barry Duke
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A NEW survey conducted by what The Christian Post calls a ‘left-leaning’ Christian activist group asked respondents who Jesus would vote for in the upcoming presidential election – and Trump came in ahead by one percentage point. The group in question is Vote Common Good, a voter mobilisation nonprofit that has been holding events in swing states in an effort to persuade evangelicals not to vote for Trump. Its finding show that: Across Evangelicals and Catholics, 28% say Jesus would… Read more
September 14, 2020
Good news: Religion is fast going down the tubes in America
September 14, 2020 By Barry Duke
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ONE of the world’s leading social scientists – Ronald Inglehart, above, of the University of Michigan – claims in a book soon to be published that the United States is experiencing a more dramatic shift away from religion than any other nation. Religion’s Sudden Decline: What’s Causing It and What Comes Next is to be released in January by Oxford University Press. Writing in Foreign Affairs magazine – in an advance summary titled “Giving Up on God: The Global Decline of Religion”… Read more
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