Rantings of a New Yorker

Episode Description: Tom Curran and reporter Mark Trahant examine a little-known chapter of the Catholic Church sex abuse story: decades of abuse of Native Americans by priests and church workers in Alaska. The Silence shows how the isolation of the villages and the absolute authority of the church over the Native population created an atmosphere [...]

The commercial is about a little girl asking the boy to be her boyfriend. He says that girls are too demanding until she tells him that she just wants some french fries. Cute. Innocent. Catholics, however, believe they’re right and the commercial is sending the wrong message to little children. Maybe Catholics should look in [...]

Catholic bishops believe that they should be allowed to discriminate against and ban gays when considering them for government programs. Sorry guys. You take government money, you follow government rules.

via Think Atheist.

The Philadelphia archdiocese has suspended 21 Roman Catholic priests who were named as child molestation suspects in a recent grand jury report.

What the pope said. As we reflect on the sobering lessons of the atheist extremism of the twentieth century, let us never forget how the exclusion of God, religion and virtue from public life leads ultimately to a truncated vision of man and of society and thus to a “reductive vision of the person and [...]

There’s a Hepatitis A scare on Long Island as church goers attended communion at Our Lady of Lourdes and found out that they may have contracted Hepatitis A.

Full audio here.