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catholic confidence in priests — What do Catholics think about Catholic Priests? Roughly one month ago, in the lead up to Christmas 2018, Gallup conducted a poll of people that asked about the categories of professions that they trusted the most. They have been doing that every year for some time now. From that one we […]

The collapse of faith in Catholic priests

This entry was posted in catholic poll religion society and tagged catholic gallup poll priest on January 22, 2019 by Dave

catholic abuse report — The Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro has formally published a 1,400-page report into the sexual abuse of little boys and girls. It is such a common story from almost every corner of the planet touched by Catholicism that you might perhaps expect to be immune to shock, and yet the scale of […]

Catholic Sexual Abuse on an Industrial Scale

This entry was posted in catholic religion and tagged abuse catholic Pennsylvania report on August 17, 2018 by Dave

weird religious news — Abuse is the theme this week. Over and over, stories of religious abuse emerge. People in positions of trust continue to abuse such positions and often the religious response is to cover it all up and pretend it has not happened. During the past seven days the following tragic stories […]

Weekly World Religious News

This entry was posted in religion society weird and tagged abuse catholic Creation Festival Harry L. Thomas Ms Tolmie-McGran religious news weird on December 10, 2017 by Dave

The term “weird” is perhaps a relative term. Often ideas that are highly unusual and bizarre will be appropriated culturally and so they become accepted as normal and not weird. Belief often operates as a mini-culture that is distinctly different and so it can and does contain things that our […]

Top 3 Weekly Weird Religious News Items

This entry was posted in People religion society weird and tagged catholic flat earth mass planned parenthood on July 16, 2017 by Dave

The TL:DR; answer is that yes, it is indeed still ongoing and it is still being covered up. The prevailing myth is that it is all in the past and with a new Pope in charge and a new set of rules in place, it is history, a rather dark abhorrent one, […]

Is there still ongoing Clerical Abuse and Cover up?

This entry was posted in catholic religion and tagged abuse catholic clerical coverup on January 27, 2016 by Dave

Atheist Ireland reports on the latest developments … It is increasingly clear that the Catholic Church will not divest any schools to other patron bodies unless they are forced to do so. In fact they have reinforced their position of opposing human rights standards in education, by rejecting the Toledo Guiding […]

Catholic Church refuses to divest schools or respect human rights in Ireland

This entry was posted in catholic education religion and tagged catholic education Ireland on January 5, 2015 by Dave