Catholicism

A ROW simmering in Germany over same-sex church blessings is fast reaching boiling point as priests continue to defy a ban on such ceremonies by the Vatican’s Congregation for the …
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LAST year Jędraszewski, above, the Archbishop of Kraków, claimed that the ‘red plague” had been replaced in Poland with a ‘rainbow plague,’ thus ramping up anti-gay sentiment in a country …
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EARLIER this year, The Philadephia Inquirer reported that a dispute between the city of Philadelphia and Catholic Social Services – a foster care agency that won’t place children with same-sex …
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FOLLOWING the weekend canonisation of English cardinal John Henry Newman Jesuit Fr James Martin, above, reiterated his belief that Newman may have been gay.

This has sent a frisson of …
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WHEN staff at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic School in Madison, Wisconsin discovered that a teacher whom they had just hired supported gay rights they promptly rescinded her contract.

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PROGRESSIVE worshippers disenchanted with a Fr George Kuforiji, a Catholic priest at St Francis of Assisi parish in Portland, Oregon, shouted him down while he was celebrating Mass.

Since …
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A STUNNINGLY beautifukl dance, performed inside Montreal’s historic St Peter the Apostle Catholic Church earlier this year, has been branded as ‘homoerotic’ and ‘sacrilegious’ in an article published this week …
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AROUND 1,000 people participated in Bialystok’s first equality march last Saturday, but they were vastly outnumbered by violent far-right protestors and religious zealots.

More than 4,000 far-right counter-protestors reportedly showed …
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JOSHUA Payne-Elliott, a social studies teacher who worked at Cathedral High School in Indianapolis for 13 years, has filed a lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Indianapolis for insisting he be …
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THE Catholic Church in Poland is planning ‘services of reparation’ across the country on Sunday, June 23, because of the ‘profane’ use of the image of Our Lady of Częstochowa …
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