Roman Catholicism

Obviously Cardinal Dolan Is Really Pissed About Cuomo's Abortion Bill

A few weeks ago, we wrote a post entitled "Cuomo's Women's Equality Act Brings The A-Word To New York State Politics." The headline basically tells the whole story. It focused on the brewing controversy evoked by a tiny stipulation in Cuomo's new bill that calls for writing Roe v. Wade protections ... More >>

Pope Benedict Will Still Have The Services Of His Handsome Male Companon

Get this, Mary. Departing Pope Benedict gets to retain his hot male sidekick, Georg Ganswein, who as Andrew Sullivan says, "will be living with Benedict at the monastery inside the Vatican and keeping his day job as prefect of the new pope's household." Talk about One Man, Two Guvnors! (Or "two se ... More >>

O, UNHOLY NIGHT

Top your tree with Jackie Beat

The Catholic League Responds To My Obama Bobblehead Writeup

Earlier today, I posted Catholic League irritant Bill Donohue's video in which he blew steam about the resurrection of Andres Serrano's Piss Christ work, which is being shown in a NYC gallery. I talked about how, in the video, Donohue unveiled his own master opus, a bobblehead of President Obama st ... More >>

Y La Bamba+Chris Pureka

Free Contraception For All! Obamacare Gets Rid of Co-Pay For Birth Control, and Unsuprisingly Pisses Off The Catholic Church

Today brings free contraception for all (as long as you're one of the millions insured and you don't work for a Catholic organization), under the Affordable Care Act. Effective today, these provisions cover most major preventive services without a co-pay.According to data provided by Planned Parenth ... More >>

Did You Just See The Virgin Mary?

The Virgin Mary might live in a tree in West New York, New Jersey, some now claim. Today's New York Times has a report that religious pilgrims have been flocking to the site, "making the sign of the cross and weeping at the base of a Ginkgo biloba tree with a strange knot that they believe resembl ... More >>

Katie And Suri Are Catholic: Is That Really Better?

Loving, caring Katie Holmes has reportedly gone back to Roman Catholicism and she's taken Suri with her. As a lapsed Catholic, I have to ask: Is that really better than Scientology? And the answer would be: Yeah, a little bit. The Church has started holy wars, destroyed lives, demonized gays, opp ... More >>

Brooklyn DA Hynes Does Damage Control Over Orthodox Sex Scandal

A week after a blistering series in the New York Times detailing his apparent complicity in an effort by Brooklyn's Ultra-Orthodox and Hasidic leaders to cover up sex abuse in their communities, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes is in damage-control mode. We noted earlier this week that some ... More >>

Cardinal Dolan Comments On Contraception Politics

This Easter Sunday was not free from politics and controversy for Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who in addition to giving a sermon at Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral today, appeared in a segment that aired on CBS' Face The Nation. In the interview Dolan weighed in once again on the nation's contraception ... More >>

Sex Mad: Why the Rightblogger Obsession With Ladyparts Never Ends

With all the recent women's health controversies -- Komen/Planned Parenthood, contraception in Catholic hospitals, and Virginia's plan to wand women who want abortions -- and their potential to steer women's votes away from Republicans, you'd think conservatives would prefer to get back to talking a ... More >>

Flogging Molly

New York's Catholics at the Forefront of Recent Church News

New York's Catholic organizations have found themselves at the forefront of church news recently, as a controversial healthcare provision is fought over in heated public debate with the president. In January, President Obama signed into law a federal regulation which would require employers to cov ... More >>

Is Gay Marriage Getting Blue Balled in Albany? Senate to Vote Monday at Earliest.

​Now that Governor Cuomo has given his all toward passing gay marriage equality legislation, and the Assembly has passed the measure for a fourth time, the focus is exactly back where it's been for the past two years: the State Senate. Yet after significant momentum at the beginning of the we ... More >>

TOILET TALK

A controversial Spanish play tests New Yorkers

Nuns Get Litigious, Sue Boston Archbishop

We have to run a photo of the Flying Nun with every nun story. It's the law.​The Daughters of St. Paul are suing Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley, the archbishop of Boston, in an attempt to get out of an archdiocese-run pension fund. The Boston Globe reports that the group, which consists of around 1 ... More >>

Mark Lombardi's World Conspiracy, Corruption, and Vatican Hit Men

Pierogi hosts an overview of the artist's career

For Mother Teresa's 100th Birthday, a Rally Outside the Empire State Building

​Cities all over the world are celebrating Mother Teresa's birthday today, and New York is no exception, with blue and white lights planned for Times Square, the Intrepid, Borough Hall in Brooklyn, and other city locales. Notably not included in the list of landmarks honoring the Nobel-Prize-w ... More >>

The Downtown Mosque Plan Riles the Loons

And tugs at the heart

Ronnie's Kids: The Bright Side of "Amnesty"

So what happened to the immigrants given a fresh start by Reagan in 1986?

Priest Accused of Stealing $1 Million in Church Money, Spending It on Male Escorts

via Hartford Courant​Weren't we all just talking about how the BP spill totally helped the Catholic Church with its little "priest situation," at least where the media was concerned? Got 'em out of the spotlight for a bit, took the heat off, what have you? Well, today we heard that we all migh ... More >>

Gay Pride's Here! And I'm So Ashamed!

We're asking, so tell us: What about our civil rights?

But He Still Got a First Down!

Can you believe this shit is still news? The last pope got shot, and the next day even the Catholics were all talking about the Boston Celtics. Anyway, people who were upset that Susanna Maiolo knocked over Benedict XVI at Midnight Mass will be happy to learn she has been "taken to a mental inst ... More >>

Quick hits

​According to the News, Mayor Bloomberg made his Democratic opponent formulate plans to deal with emergencies Bloomberg knew didn't exist. He also delayed the release of the fetching photo at left until after the election, despite an FOIA request.

Reyna's Big Council Win a Defeat for Dem Boss Vito Lopez

​ By Aaron Howell. Yesterday incumbent city councilmember Diana Reyna defeated challenger Maritza Davila by 4,000 votes, 60 percent to 35 percent. It was a far cry from the last time the two women faced off, in the September Democratic primary, when Reyna beat Davila by a mere 250 votes aft ... More >>

Empire Viols

Barrett: New York's Irish Get Another Archbishop, Latinos Blanked Again

So the Irish still get theirs. The new archbishop of New York, Timothy Dolan, surely soon to become a cardinal, mixes the blarney of John J. O'Connor with the buck smarts of Edward Egan, his last two Irish predecessors. In the century and a half history of the archdiocese, only Irishmen have ruled. ... More >>

Daily Flog: Democrats go shopping for GM; Obama storms White House

Ask a Mexican: Catholic Tastes

Lesbians, party favors, and more

Live: Grand Buffet Hate the Pope

Constantine's Sword Crusades Against Crusades

Documentary examines the Catholic Church's history of anti-Semitism

Former Candidate Rudy: The Year in Stories

At Prey in the Fields of the Lord

Robert Riggio has made a career out of conning priests and parishes by phone. If he calls you, hang up.

Rudy's Friend: The Accused Pedophile Priest

Happy Birthday, Dan Rather

Trouble in Paradise

Islands in the scream: A talk with Hawaiian novelist Lois-Ann Yamanaka

Who Would Take a Case Like This?

Someone Mad as Hell, That's Who

Under The Revival Tent

Beyond the aging Billy Graham, some new faces on the Christian right

The Gospel According to the Hold Steady

On their great new album, Brooklyn's best band explores why Catholic girls start much too early

Morning Report 4/13/05
Bush's Papal Bull

Feeding-Tube Frenzy

The miracle of Capitol Hill tries to pump new life into the Christian right

Horoscope

Power of Abuse

A cardinal's Sin: Is he the Church corporeal, or just a cog in a corporate bureaucracy?

A Resurrected Anti-Passion: Python's Sunday-School Travesty

Mass Appeal

Paul Elie's Catholic Tastes

Secrets and Lies

The Cleric and the Clerk Who Turned a Blind Eye

Letters

Still No Pill Bill

Birth Control Coverage Snagged as Legislators Fight Over Cancer Screenings

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