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 leader of the world’s largest paedophile ring will be in Britain next month – and purveyors of crappy Catholic goods are hoping to make a killing with a range of monumentally awful souvenirs. The online Papal Visit store, for example, is offering a baseball cap, a jacket and a range of T-shirts bearing Ratzi’s [...]
IN what looks suspiciously like an attempt to ape the activities of the Islamic world’s Commissions for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the Vatican has extended the powers of its Swiss Guard to impose a modesty dress code across the entire city state. Tourists entering St Peter’s Basilica have long been required [...]
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IN A week in which the Catholic Church put the crime of sex abuse on par with the “crime” of ordinating women, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez described local Catholic leaders as “troglodytes” and “cavemen” and ordered a review of his country’s ties with the Vatican. The Marxist President also challenged the Pope’s authority, saying he [...]
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A TEAM of investigators has been appointed by Pope Ratzinger to clamp down on liberal secular opinion in Ireland as part of an intensive drive to re-impose traditional respect for clergy, according to informed sources in the Catholic Church. The nine-member team led by two cardinals will be instructed by the Vatican to restore a [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
