catholic church

New pope, new pope thread, same old Catholic Church. "Pope Leo XIV (born Robert Francis Prevost; September 14, 1955) is the bishop of Rome, head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State. He was elected pope in the 2025 papal conclave on May 8, following the death and...

Well this isn't good. US Catholic priest resigns after performing thousands of invalid baptisms over 20 years For Catholics, this is a very big deal. The sacraments may seem trivial to us, but to a Catholic they are critical to salvation. And they are, apparently, completely invalidated by the...

The current Pope has shown himself to be a quite rational, deep-thinking sort of person, whose views on science and the scientific process I admire. Recently he said: “When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand and able to do...

The new Cosmos that premired on Sunday has Bill Donohue upset. He claims the section on Giordano Bruno stating that the church used to Inquisition to try and punish him is anti-catholic propaganda. http://www.catholicleague.org/cosmos-smears-catholicism/ The Inquisition was all friendly eh?

So I'm thinking this is perhaps a drastic misinterpretation. or satire. :p But the Pope did say some actual interesting stuff on homosexuality recently.

Hello all! There is an issue which I am having trouble documenting and I hope that someone at JREF may be able to help me out a bit. Specifically, last night at dinner I got into a debate about exorcisms where I said something like “the Catholic Church does indeed still preform exorcisms and...

Dashing hope of significant liberalisation in church doctrine, Pope Francis has reiterated the doctrinal crackdown on the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (an umbrella organisation representing about 80% of USAian female Catholic orders) and reasserting the church's conservative...

Yep, those Catholics are mostly right-to-lifers, and prone to argue that even a fetus is a human. Most of the time. But when one of their hospitals are on the wrong end of a wrongful death lawsuit, they are likely to change their tune. What could cause this sudden change in position? Money...

WTF?!! Just when I thought the Catholic Church couldn't turn into an even bigger group of asshats, they pull this sort of b.s. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/47524412#47524412 I can only hope this backfires on them like crazy. Nothing like trying to hold the poor and destitute...

Vatican orders crackdown on American nuns Those uppity women need to be put back in their place!

Women’s Health Care at Risk (NY Times Editorial) For the price we pay for Medicare and Medicaid, we could have a National Health Service like the UK or Canada. The annual growth in spending on Medicare in the US has averaged 12% since the 1970s[1], although it has come down in recent years...

I'm tired of all the unjustified deference and excessive praise heaped upon New York's biggest religious bigot, I mean, newly appointed Cardinal, Timothy Dolan, in the New York City media. This has been bothering me for a while, but then the front page of today's NY Daily News expressed...

http://www.sfweekly.com/2012-01-11/news/mother-teresa-catholic-church-john-hardon-donald-mcguire-child-abuse-jesuits/ Just remembered Hitch isn't around to comment and it feels like someone punched me in the heart. I'd like to come up with something as brutal as "thieving Albanian dwarf" right...

The L.A. Times reported yesterday that Auxiliary Bishop Gabino Zavala's resignation has been accepted by the Pope......phew! What a kind gesture! Why were this hypocrite's transgressions suddenly revealed-- after more than 12 years? Anyone care to comment? Or is this not worth discussing?:rolleyes:

Irish government going to do something about it now, as some sort of threshold has been reached http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-14136923

21 Priests Suspended in Philadelphia VABSoHYQr6k

Notice that who is being lynched is reported, but who is doing the lynching is left out. While Haiti is known for Voodoo, it is a small minority religion. The vast majority are Christian, and the vast majority of Christians are Catholics. This is, essentially, a witch panic, like the one in...

Ok, wow.

I'm trying to critically evaluate the Catholic representation of sexual abuse of minors in the Catholic church. There are a few articles that I could use some help evaluating, or getting a wider scientific context to: Since I can't post links yet- a google search for "Catholic League Abuse in...

Vatican upset over Belgian child abuse investigation. Calls it "unprecedented" BBC story In another BBC story the Vatican even calls the Belgian ambassador to the Vatican to complain. and one more I agree that holding people for nine hours without food or drink is a clear violation of...

Never mind sex, my young mind was given math formulas that didn't compute, for lack of better analogy, from the Roman Catholic Church. I don't think I was ever sexually molested, but I remember some of the poignant details of advice from these authorities: A nun, at catechism class, explained...

Well, this is what finally did it: The smoking gun. Highlights include: That's it! You know, I've defended the RCC in a lot of ways, but this is what finally, finally did it for me. They KNEW, and not only did they not do anything, but they actively covered it up, and there's proof that the...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7930380.stm Riiiiiiigghhhttt.... so, the Vatican says it's OK to pronounce excommunication on the child's mother and the doctors who were saving the child's life and health. But not a word about the rapist scum who abused her.:mad:

Richard Williamson, the Holocaust denying Bishop is saying he's sorry. For harming the Church, and for making people angry. But he's saying that he was wrong. Apparantly his position is that his views were not mistaken, but he should have kept them to himself. BTW, what sort of...

Little by little, step by step..... link

Story Looks like the current Pope is serious about turning back the clock for the Catholic Church.

What effect, if any, do you think this will have on religious people around the world? Do people even listen to the catholic church as an authority on things anymore? Any other thoughts? ETA: DOH! here is the link

I really felt the need to share this paper with the world. The very quick back story: Dad (me) and mom married in 1989, daughter born in 1990. We were both regular Sunday Catholics. Mom had a totally wacked out conversion in 1993. Became a crazed catholic: daily mass, adoration, relics...

But, did he mean it? "Speaking outside the Basilica of Our Lady, one of the world's largest cathedrals, the Pope said the Catholic Church would grow by attracting new members, not by proselytising to reluctant audiences". http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6651809.stm Is this a call to stop...

I found this interesting little item here: Vatican threatens to boycott Holocaust memorial. Essentially the Vatican has threatened to boycott a holocaust museum in Israel because of its unfavorable section on Pope Pius XII, who happens to be on the road to sainthood. The question here is...