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Posts Tagged ‘catholics’

Monday, October 15th, 2007

A Vatican official suspended after being caught on a hidden camera making advances to a young man says he is not gay and was only pretending to be gay as part of his work. [Baltimore Sun/AP]


Rudy Baffled By His Own Religion’s Theology

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

Just make it simpler!
Rudy Guliani was asked a relatively straightforward question at a Town Hall meeting in Iowa: Is he a practicing Catholic? America’s straight-talking mayor punted: MORE »


Nexus Of Catholic-Protestant Hate Moves From Belfast To Iowa

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

Keeping the taigs out of Des Moines
Are the Republicans ready to nominate someone whose flavor of Christianity makes the base a little uncomfortable? Someone who says he worships the same Jesus that they do, but who belongs to a church with a highly structured hierarchy and strange rituals and funny clothes? Someone who’s … a Roman Catholic? MORE »


Boy-Molesting Priest Also Giuliani Consultant

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

A face only an altar boy could love ... well, not really, cuz it's rape - WonketteCross-dressing thrice-married abortionist Rudy Giuliani is building a “dream team” of consultants that so far includes a diaper-wearing hooker-fucker in New Orleans and a coke-dealing state treasurer in South Carolina. He seems to be lacking a pedophile on his team. Any possibilities out there? MORE »


Vatican Declares Death Is the Only Escape For Kennedys

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

160px-Joe_Kennedy.jpgJoseph P. Kennedy II, son of RFK, divorced Sheila Rauch Kennedy in 1991. Then, like a good Catholic, he had the 12-year marriage annulled in 1996. MORE »


PRIEST: I TAUGHT MAF54 EVERYTHING HE KNOWS

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

Holy christ, after coming up with the most inane, torn-from-last-year’s headlines, cockamamie, sub-Hitchcockian dime-store psychoanalysis-lite excuse imaginable for Mark Foley’s actions, someone found him a priest to take the fall. His name is Anthony Mercieca, he lives on the (apparently real) “island of Gozo,” and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune scored an awesome interview with him. MORE »


The Party That Prays Together

Thursday, June 1st, 2006

Monsignor Jim Lisante delivered the invocation at this year’s New York Republican convention. Here’s a short video clip: MORE »


The Popish Plot Behind Illegal Immigration

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

Looks like Adele Fergusen has some competition for “craziest columnist at a non-major newspaper.” From Fort Wayne, Indiana — the same metropolitan area that spawned the insane Tony Zirkle — we get this insightful commentary:

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No, this is not an Onion article — although with an author photo like that, your confusion is understandable. This was published in an actual newspaper (page A4 of the hard copy edition). So, unlike our ephemeral musings, TREES DIED FOR THIS.

After the jump, some additional excerpts from Richard Sloan’s piece, plus commentary.

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