IN THE same week that that Alexander Bede Walsh – a former Roman Catholic priest from Staffordshire – was warned that he faces jail after being convicted of 21 counts of child abuse, retired New York Cardinal Edward Egan caused outrage by retracting an apology he made in 2002 to victims of sexual abuse carried [...]
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A ROMAN Catholic monk was warned about his behaviour after molesting a 12-year-old boy at the school at which he was teaching – but instead of being reported to the police he was simply prevented from teaching younger children by the Benedictine abbot of the monastery to which the school was attached. This shocking fact [...]
I RECENTLY discovered Ben C O Grimm’s Atheism News Magazine – and have been regularly checking into it to see what’s going on in the mad, bad world of religion. The reports on Grimm’s site are, by and large, pretty grim, the most horrifying today being the Christmas day attacks by mad Muslims in Nigeria [...]
AN online petition has been launched, calling on the Nigerian authorities to investigate a very public assault on a teenage girl by a self-styled “bishop”. The ‘bishop’ was caught on camera delivering the slap (click on pic to view the entire incident) During a “deliverance” service at Otta, in Ogun state, “Bishop” David Oyedepo, general [...]
FOLLOWING our report last month regarding the disappearance of Father Laurence Soper, 80, wanted by police in connection with abuse at St Benedict’s Catholic Independent School in Ealing, west London, comes the news that monks from the neighbouring Ealing Abbey are no longer to be involved in the running of the school A report, commissioned [...]
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WHEN a Texas mum took her 14-year-old son to a Hallowe’en party in Pasadena, near Houston, the last thing she expected was a gory enactment of an abortion by a bunch of demented Christians. Linda Ybarra, according to this report, said she took her son to the Hell House event expecting to see The usual [...]
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