Category Archives: Priests of Darkness

Sex, sin, satanism among Catholic clergy

Benny Wins Papal Exorcism Smackdown

Boo!

Poor Pope Benedict XVI, he gets no respect. Having risen from liberal theologian to conservative head of the Inquisition with the help of his predecessor and then managing to get himself elected, Ratzinger seems to have decided to rest on his laurels. Unfortunately, they seem to have turned into a crown of thorns. And so, … More…

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No De-Baptism for You!

Escape while you can

NPR reported this weekend about Rene LeBouvier, an elderly Frenchman (71) who wants to leave the Catholic Church by having his baptism nullified. A noble effort in which he is far from alone: apparently over a thousand of his countrymen ask every year for the same thing, and twice that number want out in neighboring … More…

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Sanchez is Gone But Questions Linger

Home at last

The tenth Archbishop of Santa Fe, the Most Reverend Robert Fortune Sanchez, who resigned in disgrace for gross mishandling of clergy abuse among his priests while taking sexual advantage of a number of young women, has died. And so, we are led to believe, ends the crisis here. The crisis, maybe, but not the mystery. … More…

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The Cult of Survivors

OBEY

  The Catholic Church has often been described as a cult by critics. In fact, most of the cult checklists out there seem directly targeted at Rome, even if aimed at Mormons, Scientologists, or Heaven’s Gate. But there is another group that exhibits many of the same disturbingly cult-like features of the Catholic Church, even … More…

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Fighting the New Propaganda

If you know what's good for you.

The Catholic Church sure didn’t invent propaganda, but they are responsible for the word. It was long enshrined in the Vatican in the very name of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, the Church’s missionary arm (now called the “Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples” doubtless because the previous title sounded like they … More…

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Guy Fawkes and the Failures of November

November from Les Très Riches Heures de Duc du Berry

Ah, the many failed feasts of fall! This month’s calendar is a litany of despair, with the anniversaries of many historic bungles, downfalls, flops, false starts, and total fiascos. Is it because this is the season when life itself falters against the lengthening night, when the last leaves fall from the trees, the air turns … More…

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Women’s Ordination, Child Abuse, and a World Bank

The Beast, himself

Every time I see a stupid, reactionary, and patronizing action by the Vatican, the Holy See reminds us all once again that they are not to be judged by mere human law. No, their stupidities transcend all normal classifications of idiocy, soaring into rarefied realms of blithe intransigent irrationality with utter glee. The problem is … More…

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