Archive for the 'Religion' Category
Germany: Religious Circumcisions Are Crimes
June 26th, 2012Via: The Local: Non-medical circumcision is a “serious and irreversible interference in the integrity of the human body,” the Cologne district court ruled. This criminalises religious circumcisions performed by Jews and Muslims, the Financial Times Deutschland newspaper said on Tuesday. It says circumcision should be considered a crime of bodily harm. Thousands of very young […]
Vatican Bank’s Former President Has, ‘Prepared a Series of Dossiers to be Sent to Named Individuals in the Event of His sudden Death’
June 11th, 2012Via: Guardian: The ousted head of the Vatican bank came under a withering counter-attack at the weekend as his former top official accused him of negligence and leaked documents were published casting doubt on his mental health. The Vatican meanwhile warned Italian prosecutors against using information in papers seized last week from the bank’s ex-president, […]
Pope’s Butler Leaked Vatican Documents
May 26th, 2012Via: Reuters: Paolo Gabriele was always a reserved, almost shy man, as his position required. He had access to the most private rooms in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace – Pope Benedict’s apartment. But what could have prompted the pope’s butler, who was formally charged by Vatican magistrates on Saturday with illegal possession of secret documents, […]
Defrocked Priest Now TSA Supervisor at Philadelphia International Airport
May 25th, 2012Via: CBS: The CBS 3 I-Team has learned that a Catholic priest who was removed from the ministry over sex abuse allegations now holds a sensitive security post at Philadelphia International Airport. The security checkpoint between Terminals D and E is a busy place where thousands of people – including lots of kids – pass […]
Priest Claims Missing Teenage Girl Had Been Kidnapped ‘For Sex Parties by a Gang Involving Vatican Police and Foreign Diplomats’
May 22nd, 2012Via: Telegraph: A teenage girl whose disappearance in Rome has remained a mystery for 30 years was kidnapped for sex parties by a gang involving Vatican police and foreign diplomats, the Roman Catholic Church’s leading exorcist has claimed. Father Gabriele Amorth, who was appointed by the late John Paul II as the Vatican’s chief exorcist […]
Secrets in Plain Sight
May 2nd, 2012Via: Secrets in Plain Sight: Secrets In Plain Sight is an awe inspiring exploration of great art, architecture, and urban design which skillfully unveils an unlikely intersection of geometry, politics, numerical philosophy, religious mysticism, new physics, music, astronomy, and world history. Exploring key monuments and their positions in Egypt, Stonehenge, Jerusalem, Rome, Paris, London, Edinburgh, […]
Pope Calls in Opus Dei Troubleshooter to Uncover Source of Vatican Leaks
April 26th, 2012Via: Guardian: Vatican staffers who have been leaking embarrassing letters about corruption and nepotism inside the tiny city state are to be hunted down by a crack squad of cardinals led by a senior member of the religious group Opus Dei. Irritated by the anonymous release of documents to the press this year, Pope Benedict […]
2012 Olympics Commercial
April 25th, 2012Related: What are the London 2012 Olympic mascots?
Ft. Lauderdale Church Offers Drive Thru Prayer Service
April 25th, 2012Via: CBS: For our busy lives on the go, drive thru service comes in handy. From coffee and donuts to burgers and fries, drive thru service makes getting what we need a lot more convenient. Now the Christian Life Center of Ft. Lauderdale wants to pray for you. The Pentecostal congregation has been offering drive-thru […]
Scientific Fraud: ‘Nobody Had Noticed the Whole Thing Was Rotten’
April 21st, 2012Nobody noticed, eh? Well, my archives go back to 2002, for example, but I don’t count, and thousands of others like me don’t count. The professionally educated ignoramus class heaps scorn on “conspiracy theorists” for outing their crackpot grant swindling and corporate profit cult for what it is, but then, when the rot has gotten […]
