Damned Catholics

[vorlon13]

and neuter step-dad ??

[Minimalist]

I'm sure the archbishop wouldn't want to lose one of his priests.

[robvalue]

Fucking dirty animals

[Longhorn]

Tell that little girl that all life is sacred, I fucking dare you

[Minimalist]

They wouldn't have dared try this when Herr Von Popenfuhrer was calling the shots.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/15...1431702934

Germany's Catholic Church Just Took An Amazing Step For LGBT And Remarried Catholics

Would have made Kristallnacht look like a boy scout outing.

[Minimalist]

Really?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/19...f=religion

Archbishop Of Dublin: "I Have No Wish To Stuff My Religious Views Down Other People's Throats"

Up an altar boy's ass?  That's different.

[Pyrrho]

Really?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/19...f=religion

Archbishop Of Dublin: "I Have No Wish To Stuff My Religious Views Down Other People's Throats"

Up an altar boy's ass?  That's different.

He is a clueless idiot:

"I have... no wish to stuff my religious views down other people’s throats...

Martin said he plans to vote against same-sex marriage in Friday's referendum... 

Right, he does not want to stuff his views down other people's throats, but he wants to prevent them from doing something against his religion.  What a fucking piece of shit.

[Minimalist]

And the people are voting with their feet.


http://www.salon.com/2015/05/21/the_cath...e_country/

The Catholic Church’s American downfall: Why its demographic crisis is great news for the country

But there’s another number lurking in the poll that may prove just as consequential: there are 3 million fewer people calling themselves Catholic today than in 2007, the last time Pew conducted their extensive poll. As a result, the share of the U.S. population that identifies as Catholic dropped from approximately 24 percent to 21 percent.

Why is this such big news? Because despite unpopular popes and still-simmering pedophilia scandals, the percentage of Catholics in the U.S. has remained remarkably steady for decades. The relative stability of the Catholic population allowed many on the Catholic right to dismiss calls for reform in the church and gave the Catholic bishops political clout when it came to opposing things like no-cost contraception in the Affordable Care Act in the name of “Catholics.”
But now it appears that the Catholic Church is in a demographic free-fall, as it sheds adherents faster than any faith other than the mainline Protestant denominations, which have been in decline for decades. Nearly one-third of all American adults were raised Catholic, but a stunning 41 percent—four in ten of those who marched to the alter in their little white First Communion dresses and suits—no longer identify with Catholicism.

Magnificent!

[abaris]

Magnificent!

Only if they throw the whole woo into the bin. If they migrate to evangelical, it's rather barf inducing.

[Minimalist]

Evangelicals are going down the shitter, too.