BY HEMANT MEHTA SEPTEMBER 14, 2020 A Catholic priest who was found guilty of sexually abusing a child was sentenced to a lifetime of… prayer. That’s the takeaway. The reality is much more complicated. In 2012, Rev. James Gaudreau (below), a priest working for the St. Joseph Parish in Boston, was accused of sexual abuse that allegedly […]
SEPTEMBER 13, 2020 BY BARRY DUKE GOD has allegedly been answering the prayers of millions ‘throughout Britain’s history,’ so some Christian numpty thought the time had come to to build a bloody great monument on the outskirts of Birmingham to recognise the fact The brainchild of Richard Gamble, above, a former Leicester City Football Club chaplain, […]
JULY 18, 2020 BY BARRY DUKE IN A move that proves the Republicans haven’t quite cornered the market in religious lunacy, Louisiana’s Democratic Catholic Governor John Bel Edwards, above, has asked people living in the Pelican state to embark on a three-day prayer initiative in the fight against COVID-19. At a press conference on Thursday, Edwards asked all […]
FEBRUARY 25, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Faith Healing Kills: Conservative Christian parents in Michigan who refused to get their dying daughter medical attention because of “religious reasons” now face 25 years to life in prison. The Cedars Spring Post reports: Seth Michael Welch, 28, was found guilty of felony murder and first-degree child abuse for the death […]
February 27, 2020 The Freedom From Religion Foundation today, Feb. 27, filed a federal lawsuit against Puerto Rico’s Education Secretary and a principal on behalf of a family subjected to forced prayers and bullying in a public primary school. Since September 2019, in direct contradiction of well-established constitutional law, officials at the Luis M. Santiago School, a […]