Posted on 15 April 2010
Tags: Alessandra Mussolini, Bernard Valero, Bertone, catholic church, catholic priests, Charles J. Scicluna, chile, Christian Democratic, church statistics, faith, Federico Lombardi, Franco Grillini, homosexuality, italy, link, Paris, pedophilia, pope, prepubescent children, rome, Santiago, santiago chile, Senator Patricio Walker, statement, tarcisio bertone, vatican
The Vatican’s most recent statement concerning the link between pedophilia and homosexuality, which was designed to quell a fire caused by a previous statement, actually caused a new hullabaloo.
Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi tried to douse flames of controversy by releasing a statement intended to lend the Vatican distance from the uproar.
Lombardi said that Church leaders were not trying to make “general affirmations of a specific psychological nature” and offered Church statistics cited by the Vatican’s internal prosecutor, Msgr. Charles J. Scicluna. Read more... (425 words, 2 images, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)
Posted on 05 March 2010
Tags: catholic church, ireland, jesus, john paul, pope benedict, sexual abuse, sinead o'connor, vatican
Irish singer Sinead O’Connor says she’d help Jesus destroy the Vatican if she could.
“If Christ was here, he would be burning down the Vatican. And I for one would be helping him,” she said.
O’Connor made the statement via a letter to the Irish Independent in response to Roman Catholic Bishop, Denis Brennan’s recent plea to his congregation for funds.
Brennan oversees the Ferns Diocese in County Wexford, Ireland.
His plea for funds came in the midst of a recently exposed decades-old sex abuse scandal that has seen the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland receive a publicized rebuke from Pope Benedict XVI and paying out millions to victims of sexual abuse at the hand of priests. Read more... (456 words, 2 images, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)
Posted on 21 December 2009
Tags: America religion demographics, Astrology, atheist, barack obama, catholic church, denominations, Eastern religions, new age, reincarnation
Recent surveys find many Americans mingling their Christian faith with New Age precepts, including Astrology
According to a December 2009 poll by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, an increasing number of Americans claim to mingle their Christian faith with New Age teachings and Eastern religion precepts, including “reincarnation, astrology and the presence of spiritual energy in physical objects.”
This survey is of particular interests to U.S. religious demographic studies, considering that in 2008 76 percent of American adults claimed to adhere to traditional Christianity. This is down from 86 percent in 1990. Read more... (472 words, 2 images, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)
