A ROMAN Catholic bishop faces a possible prison sentence and $1,000 fine for failing to report a priest who was found to have hundreds of pictures on naked children on his laptop computer. Bishop Robert Finn, who heads the Kansas City diocese, became the highest-ranking US church official to be charged in the long-running Catholic [...]
APART from the incredibly stupid things they say, the two things that best characterise Christian zealots, as far as I’m concerned, is their inability to type their crap without having the CAP LOCK ON, and their talent for writing books with m o n u m e n t a l l y wordy titles. [...]
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MORE bad news for the Vatican … Poland, once one of Europe’s staunchest bastions of Catholicism, seems to be falling out of love with the faith. The latest manifestation of growing secularism in the country occurred earlier this week when the leader of a new ultra-liberal party – Janusz Palikot of the Palikot’s Movement – [...]
KORANS tend to get overworked in pious places like Pakistan. So much so that they sometimes fall apart, in which case they must be disposed of in an Islamically correct manner: by casting them in flowing water, burying them in the ground, or by burning, if the first two options aren’t possible. Well, devout Muslim [...]
THE Catholic Church in Kerala, India, is dismayed by falling numbers of Christians in the state – and has begun offering incentives to boost childbirth. The St Vincent de Paul Forane Church, in the Kerala town of Kalpetta, for example, is offering families 10,000 rupees ($200) if they produce a fifth sprog. The money would [...]
A FOOTBALLER’S wife is reportedly demanding that her husband packs up and leaves Saudi Arabia after his tattoos sparked outrage in that crazy Muslim kingdom. Colombian Juan Pablo Pino, who plays for the Saudi Al-Nasr club, apparently upset some shoppers when he appeared bare-armed in a Riyadh mall. They caught sight of his heavily-inked arms, [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
