The pope, decorated in his finest glitter, gave his annual Christmas speech, this year decrying said glitter and consumerism. It’s hard to take someone who is the head of the wealthiest church on the planet seriously when he does not practice what he preaches. “Let us ask the Lord to help us see through the [...]
Contrary to Pope Benedict’s assertion that the immorality of modern society is to blame for sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests, the church’s own historical documents reveal that sexual abuse has been a problem that the Catholic Church has failed to properly deal with since its earliest days. The Church’s first official document referring [...]
This statue seems more like it’s inviting people to go under the pope’s frock. Ick.
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 [...]
Deliver Us from Evil (2006) is a documentary film directed by Amy J. Berg which tells the true story of Catholic priest Oliver O’Grady, who sexually abused potentially hundreds of children between the late 1970s and early 1990s. The film won the Best Documentary Award at the 2006 Los Angeles Film Festival and was nominated [...]
