Vatican’s 3rd most powerful figure charged with multiple child sex offences
Cardinal Pell, Australia’s most senior Catholic and the 3rd-ranking official in the Vatican, has been charged with multiple sexual offences.
Holy Horrors: A Grim Pattern
When religion is the ruling force in a society, it produces horror. The stronger the supernatural beliefs, the worse the inhumanity.
Christian bullying in history
The worst incident at demonizing in history? There are so many, but arguably the most vile was the “Blood Libel” of the Jews.
Holy Horrors: Killing Heretics
In 1208, Pope Innocent III declared a major crusade to destroy the Albigenses. Some 20,000 knights and peasants answered the call.
Australia reveals over 4,000 alleged incidents of abuse by Catholic priests
More than 4,000 children, mostly boys, were allegedly sexually abused by Catholic priests in Australia over decades, an investigation says.
Hitler Was NOT An Atheist
Hitler was a Roman Catholic, baptized into that religio-political institution as an infant in Austria. Its worst doctrines never left him.
Welcome to El Salvador – Forty years’ jail for your miscarriage
Up until 1998, the law in El Salvador permitted abortions in cases of rape, incest or in which the health of the woman was threatened.
Holy Horrors: The Inquisition
The victim was required not only to confess that he was a heretic, but also to accuse his children, wife, friends, and others as fellow…
Holy Horrors: Witch-Hunts
During the 1400s, the Inquisition shifted its focus toward witchcraft, and the next 300 years witnessed a bizarre orgy of religious delusion.
One Catholic Priest Destroyed the Entire Mayan Written Language
The priest, Diego de Landa, wiped out all knowledge of the written language, and nearly destroyed the spoken language too.