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THE Catholic League has just spent big bucks on an ad in Variety magazine lambasting an upcoming episode of Penn & Teller on Showtime – and has told CBS
To send Penn & Teller a message and let them know that they have crossed the line for the last time.
Created by Catholic League head honcho Bill [...]

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Barry Duke on March 24th, 2009

THE Pope is a dickhead. Even the Vatican is beginning to realise what a disaster he really is.
But he is by no means the Church’s only dickhead. Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor, President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, is another.
His dickheadedness was exposed again last week when he reportedly wrote to [...]

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Andy Armitage on December 29th, 2007

First, a reality check. We are in the twenty-first century, aren’t we? This isn’t some kind of dream, is it? An alternative universe?
Just checking. Because, you see, there’s this chap in Italy – well, some “state” called the Vatican or Holy See or something where strange people live, but it’s in Rome, which is in [...]

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Andy Armitage on September 25th, 2007

The words pot and kettle come to mind as a woman who claims the Virgin Mary has appeared in a pine tree at her home has been dismissed as a fraud.
By the Catholic Church.
Yes.
The Catholic Church.
You couldn’t make it up.
This apparition has been appearing for about 20 years at 67-year-old Patricia De Menezes’s home in [...]

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Barry Duke on April 3rd, 2006

BARBARA SMOKER digs up an old Vatican Gangster
ARCHBISHOP Paul Casimir Marcinkus died on February 20 in Sun City, near Phoenix, Arizona. You don’t remember him? During his 18 years as president of the Vatican bank, Instituto per le Opere di Religione (Institute of Religious Works, or IOR), which manages the financial investments of the Vatican, [...]

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