AN 82-year-old Catholic priest, father Marques Barbosa, became an unwitting porn star when he was shown on Brazilian TV last week having sex with a 19-year-old altar boy.
He was the “star turn” in a report on the SBT TV programme Conexao Reporter which also included charges by three former altar boys that they had [...]
GIVEN the Roman Catholic’s despicable history of child abuse in Ireland, one would think that Church representatives would now be cowering shame-faced in a corner, and doing all they can to avoid drawing attention to themselves.
But no. Right now they’re all full of piss and vinegar over Ireland’s Civil Partnership bill which three RC bishops [...]
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WHEN, back in 2006, a branch of Lloyds pharmacy in Rotherham was forced to apologise to a woman who was denied the “morning after” pill by a “deeply religious” employee, it was revealed that the man who refused to do dispense the pill was a Muslim, whose identity was never revealed.
But now that it’s happened [...]
A CATHOLIC priest in Brighton is quoted in the Argus tonight as saying that he can no longer vote Labour – because they are hostile to religion.
Father Ray Blake, of St Mary Magdalen in Brighton, said faith communities in Brighton and Hove – officially Britain’s most godless city – were being overlooked in favour of [...]
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A SPANISH priest has gone into hiding after he was exposed as a male prostitute who splashed out church funds on telephone sex and internet pornography.
Samuel Martin Martin, 27, the priest at two small Catholic parishes in the central province of Toledo, posted images of himself posing in grey underpants and said he was available [...]
SCHOOLS Secretary Ed Balls today denied offering faith schools an opt-out from new rules forcing teachers to address issues such as homosexual equality and contraception in sex education lessons.
Balls said that a bill being debated by MPs later today would introduce an “overdue and radical change” and that a controversial amendment tabled by the government [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
