The Worlds - lite

In the NY Times today, both Frank Bruni and Maureen Dowd have excellent columns about the Pope and Roman Catholicism. It's a Mother...

If you thought Pope Francis changed everything, think again . The U.N. is looking into the, you know, child-raping that Catholic priests e...

There's an article in the NYT this morning with this headline: "Dolan calls Pope's tone on sexual morality a breath of fr...

Sleazy is the perfect word for an op-ed in the NYT today, allegedly written by Vlad Putin hisself. I won't run it down here. Russia ...

I found it difficult to watch John Kerry emote yesterday on the subject of Syria. The whole bit stank. See, you can't assume the h...

Cardinal Timmy Dolan is an ugly man. And he has a blog. In a post called " What the Holy Father Said ", he further "clarifi...

The Catholic church continues to amaze me. Readers might at first experience pink, fuzzy, hopeful thoughts on seeing this in the news toda...

I think the reason why I put up two silly posts today (see below) is that I'm depressed. Seeing yet another hero attacked for divul...

They just can't shut up, these Catholic leaders. Let's analyze this for a bit. In Ohio, a Catholic school (actually, two school...

The Justice Department has secretly obtained two months of telephone records of journalists for The Associated Press in what AP's ...

The leader of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Worcester, Mass., has been arrested on drunken driving charges in Rhode Island. ...

This is a long article. I read the whole thing and was irritated by the first half, which quoted too many Christian bigots who oppose ga...

Police in Bangladesh's capital fired rubber bullets to disperse stone-throwing Islamic activists Sunday during a protest to demand t...

So on the same day that an NBA player comes out , and the NFL distributes a flyer to players, reiterating its "anti-discrimination po...

Last night while watching the local (NYC) news, I heard a righteous rant. The station has a fairly rightwing guy who opines late in the sh...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced her support for gay marriage Monday, putting her in line with other potential...

I'm taking a break from writing (already!) because I couldn't resist making fun of commenting on this: VATICAN CITY (AP) — The...

Ed Brayton's got this covered. I urge you to read his post , which isn't long. I loved the following words, which were included in ...

An errant bishop is upset that a newspaper is calling him names. Well, actually it's more than that. He's upset because a newspape...

Remember the cardinal in Scotland who stepped down last week when confronted about sexual overtures to other priests? Well, it turns out ...