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Podcast Episode 107 For hundreds of years, Europeans explored, plundered, and colonized Africa. But decolonization offered the opportunity for Africans to reclaim not only their sovereignty but their right to self-determination. To say they have squandered it would be an understatement. But only that explains Pope Francis traveling to the Democratic Republic of Congo and… Listen.
Podcast Episode 84 It is self-evident that nuns physically abusing school kids the way priests sexually abuse altar boys means none of them can believe God exists. Because they know no God would allow them to abuse innocent children in his name the way it seems they’ve always done. Even so, I commend Pope Francis… Listen.
Catholic nuns are predators, too? Anyone who attended Catholic grade school can testify to witnessing nuns display spasms of demonic violence. Witnessing that informed the cynicism I vented earlier this year (on February 26) in “More Catholic Depravity: Nuns Pimping Orphans to Priests.” But if nuns could serve as madams for pedophile priests, it’s hardly… Read more.
Nothing has defined the Catholic Church in recent years quite like the civil reckoning for the systemic way priests raped young boys. Catholic dioceses across the United States have paid more than $3 billion dollars to victims of clergy abuse. Often, these priest abuse settlements also bought silence from victims. (abuselawsuit.com) I have written many… Read more.
Episode 9: The Co-Habitation Scandal Rivaling the Child Sex-Abuse Scandal in the Catholic Church Listen.
Five years ago, Islamists attacked the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical French magazine. They did so to avenge its publication of plainly offensive cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. They not only killed 12 people in that attack, including five famous cartoonists, but executed “a wave of jihadist strikes across France.” I duly commented in… Read more.
And things are getting very salty indeed. In 2012, international headlines suggested that the Vatican papers would shake the foundations of the Vatican much as the Pentagon papers did those of the Pentagon. But anyone who knew anything about papal history, or had merely seen season 1 of The Borgias, knew or should have known… Read more.
Leaders around the world are aping Donald Trump’s dystopian presidency. For example: Democratic leaders in Hungary, Poland, and Italy are adapting his neo-nationalist policies while others in the Philippines, Brazil, and India are parroting his demagogic and divisive rhetoric. Dictatorial leaders everywhere are chanting his “fake news” mantra – not only to discredit any reporting… Read more.
Eighty percent of Catholic priests are gay Some of the most senior clerics in the Roman Catholic church who have vociferously attacked homosexuality are themselves gay. … Eighty percent of priests working at the Vatican are gay, although not necessarily sexually active, it is claimed in the [new] book, In the Closet of the Vatican.… Read more.
I have written many commentaries decrying the institutionalized criminality of Catholic priests raping little boys. I cite in this regard such commentaries as “Pope Accused of Harboring Pedophile Priest,” March 16, 2010, “Justice Begins for Victims of Child Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church…,” June 23, 2012, “Sexual Abuse Allegations Against Pope’s Adviser Damns Papacy,”… Read more.
