Yet another prioritizing FAIL
In Catholic doctrine, delicta graviora refers to a serious and grave violation of canon law, either “committed in the celebration of the sacraments [or] committed against morals”. These violations are handled by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican office that Pope Benedict led from 1981 to 2005. Although “desecration” of the [...]
Sneaky sneaky sneaky
Remember Francis Phillips of the Catholic Herald, who recently wrote a nasty and sanctimonious article about Christopher Hitchens? That article was entitled “Perhaps throat cancer will move Christopher Hitchens to a change of heart”. I wrote about it here. Anyway, I just noticed that the Catholic Herald has changed the title of her article to [...]
No, Francis Phillips, cancer is not a blessing
Oh holy crap. Someone may have out Cristina Odone-d Cristina Odone. That someone is Francis Phillips, a writer for the Catholic Herald, who yesterday posted a piece entitled “Perhaps throat cancer will move Christopher Hitchens to a change of heart”, subtitled “The ‘Scourge of God’ has my sympathy, and prayers”. SERIOUSLY? Would someone really use [...]
Doublespeak
David Cameron has appointed a “special representative” to coordinate the Pope’s September visit to the U.K. This representative, Chris Patten, is extremely concerned. Not concerned about the sexual abuse of children and its institutionally-sanctioned cover-up or about the obscene amount of money that the British government is spending on this “state visit,” though. No: he’s [...]
I haz a theory
My new theory: “Cristina Odone” is Bill Donohue‘s sockpuppet. Exhibit A, from her latest column: I talked last night to one of the Catholic Great and Good. He’d been involved, he admitted rather sheepishly, with organising the forthcoming papal visit to Britain. And he despaired: not only because of the ineptitude of the organisers … [...]
Indignation: you’re doing it wrong
As you’ve probably heard by now, Belgian police recently raided various offices, residences, and a cathedral crypt of the Belgian Catholic church, collecting evidence regarding alleged clergy sex abuse and subsequent coverups (sound familiar?). Police sealed and searched Church headquarters and confiscated computers and files, including those detailing the Church’s internal inquiry (read: “we’ll take [...]
Facts are not “anti-Catholic”
William McMurry, an attorney from Louisville, Kentucky, wants to subpoena the Pope and other Vatican officials in order to determine what the Vatican knew about both his specific case (involving three Kentucky men who allege that they were sexually abused by priests) and about the many other institutionally-sanctioned coverups of clergy sexual abuse in the [...]
Cringeworthy hyperbole
Comedy Central is currently developing a show called JC, which they describe as: A half-hour animated show about JC (Jesus Christ) wanting to escape his father’s enormous shadow and to live life in NYC as a regular guy. A lot has changed in 2000 years and he is the ultimate fish out of water. Meanwhile [...]
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