It’s amazing the crazy stuff Catholics will see in their breakfast foods and apparently, the Virgin Mary is on top of their list.  Yes, she’s made another appearance, this time on a pancake in Glendale, Arizona.  Bianca Lopez decided to make pancakes on the day after Thanksgiving because they were quick and easy, but the [...]

This isn’t exactly new news but I wanted to touch on it because I’ve seen it again recently and it is still something important that people know about.  The following is a radio discussion between Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, Archbishop of Westminster and Roger Bolton of the BBC.
Essentially, what the good Cardinal is saying is that [...]

It’s amazing just how sympathetic the Catholic Church and it’s senior representatives have been to those who were sexually abused as children by their priests.  You’d think they ought to be shocked and dismayed that people who took a solemn oath to serve God and do their best for their community would be caught diddling [...]

I’m sorry, but are these people really this stupid?  Hot on the heels of an extensive report on religious sexual molestations in Ireland, now a former Archbishop has admitted he and his colleagues weren’t even aware that touching children was wrong.
Rembert G. Weakland, ex-Archbishop of Milwaukee, wrote in his memoirs:
We all considered sexual abuse of [...]