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A Ten-Year-Old Boy is Raped; Penn Students Show Outrage at Joe Paterno’s Firing
To focus the mind, let’s point to just one of the things Joe Paterno did (or, rather, failed to do) as coach at Penn State. In 2002, one of his coaches sodomized a ten-year-old boy in a university locker room shower. Assistant … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholic Church, child sexual abuse, critical thinking, evil, football, irrationality, joe paterno, pedophilia, reason
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Pope Benedict’s Third Force: Nice Agnostics Like Me
As an agnostic, it’s nice to learn that the head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI (a.k.a Cardinal Ratzinger), wants to make solidarity with me in pursuit of truth, goodness, and peace. In a recent speech, here’s part of … Continue reading
Johann Hari Makes the Case for the Pope’s Arrest
Eloquent. Shocking. Pro-Catholic. Johann Hari on Pope Joseph Ratzinger’s flagrant criminality, and why he should not be above the law (and notice Richard Dawkins standing behind Hari): Andrew Sullivan, a Catholic, has also been wise to Ratzinger. Here’s some of what Sullivan said, … Continue reading
The Vatican’s Watergate: Stephen Kiesle is a Registered Sex Offender in California
And Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict) spent years stalling his removal from the priesthood. Here’s the BBC today: AP says the 1985 correspondence, written in Latin, shows the cardinal saying that Kiesle’s removal would need careful review. Cardinal Ratzinger urged … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, Catholic Church, Catholicism, child abuse, God, Jesus, pedophilia, pope benedict, religion, Richard Dawkins, stephen kiesle
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What did Ireland’s Catholic Cardinal Brady do?
According to news reports, Cardinal Sean Brady ordered “two children to keep silent after they were sexually assaulted by a priest.” Did you catch that? As of today, Pope Benedict has not relieved Cardinal Brady of his duties, and Cardinal Brady has … Continue reading
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Tagged adolf eichmann, Cardinal Sean Brady, Catholic Church, catholic priests, Catholicism, God, Jesus, nazis, pedophilia, priest pedophilia, religion, torture
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“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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Tagged cardinal ratzinger, Catholic, Catholicism, Christianity, Christopher Hitchens, God, Jesus, pedophilia, pope benedict, roman catholic church
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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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Tagged Catholic Church, Catholicism, child sexual abuse, Christianity, God, Jesus, pedophiles, pedophilia, pope benedict, religion
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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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Tagged Catholic, Catholicism, child abuse, don gabriele amorth, exorcism, God, Jesus, pedophilia, religious literalism, Satan, the devil
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Apologizing for Roman Polanski? What is Anne Applebaum’s Problem?
Look, I like Rosemary’s Baby too. But in the Washington Post yesterday, the acclaimed historian of Soviet era gulags (in other words, a serious person), Anne Applebaum, offers a bizarre and full throated defense of Roman Polanski’s giving a 13 year old girl alcohol … Continue reading
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Tagged anne applebaum, Dick Cheney, feminism, pedophilia, roman polanski, sexual abuse, stand by your man, women's rights
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Prometheus Unbound 