A CATHOLIC high school chaplain in Reading, Pennsylvania, is being sued by a local couple for impregnating their 18-year-old daughter, who had mental health problems. Rev Luis A Bonilla Margarito was secretly videotaped having sex with the couple’s daughter in the basement of their home. The lawsuit, filed this week in Berks County Court, alleges [...]
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WHO is “BroJustin” and why is he so spitting mad? Like so many in the UK, “BroJustin” is appalled at the forthcoming State visit of Pope Ratzinger – but at the heart this “saved” Christian wingnut’s objections, voiced in a YouTube video, no rational arguments exist, just mindless – at time hilarious – howls about [...]
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DOMINATING the news in the last couple of days has been the Northern Ireland police ombudsman’s report which confirmed long-rumoured suspicions that a Catholic priest – Father Jim Chesney – had masterminded a terrorist atrocity: the 1972 Claudy bombing in County Derry which killed nine people, including an eight-year-old girl. I shan’t go too deeply [...]
THE Charity Commission, in a ruling published today, has again declared that a Roman Catholic child-adoption agency – Catholic Care – cannot discriminate against gay couples wanting to adopt. Earlier this year, Catholic Care, which serves the dioceses of Leeds, Middlesbrough, and Hallam, South Yorkshire, won a landmark High Court battle against the Charity Tribunal’s [...]
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THE Pope’s controversial visit to Britain next month is being threatened by low giving from Catholic parishes and rows over ethics and public money. According to this report, the cost of the planned state visit events has risen from £12 million to £20 million over the past two months, and there is a £3 million [...]
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ANNE Rice, the author best known for her vampire novels, created a sensation last week when she declared on her Facebook page that she had “quit being a Christian”. Twelve years after her return to Catholicism, Rice said she still believed in God, but that: In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
