Daily Archives: March 17, 2010

“The stench of evil”: Christopher Hitchens on Pope Benedict’s cover-up of priest pedophilia

Christopher Hitchens at Slate this week: The Roman Catholic Church is headed by a mediocre Bavarian bureaucrat once tasked with the concealment of the foulest iniquity, whose ineptitude in that job now shows him to us as a man personally … Continue reading

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Nice ring

Membership has its privileges.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          . Apparently, you get lots of nice things when you cover up for pedophiles. Here’s Andrew Sullivan today: [I]f the Pope asked Brady to resign, wouldn’t he also have to ask himself to resign? After all, … Continue reading

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Official Vatican exorcist, Don Gabriele Amorth, blames priest pedophilia on Satan, atheists, and working women

No joke. According to Salon today, official Vatican exorcist Don Gabriele Amorth: . . . told the UK Times, “All evil is due to the intervention of the Devil, including pedophilia.” He also added that contemporary culture has “given in … Continue reading

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Dear Leader Megalomania

I like these two:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        . And this one:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   . More from MightyGodKing (MGK) here. And still more Dear Leader totalitarianism and megalomania (but of the Christian fundamentalist variety) here.

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