Now that he has put in place policies that are alienating young Catholics, Pope Ratzi is turning his attention to turning off women. As if the church’s policies opposing contraception were not enough, he now reprimanded a large group of US nuns known as the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and appoint a bishop as overseer of their activities because they “had challenged church teaching on homosexuality and the male-only priesthood, and promoted “radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith.”” [Read more…]

After multiple tornados ripped through Oklahoma and other states over the weekend, one of the survivors Paul Lord predictably said, “We are truly blessed. God saved us, and that’s what it’s about.”

No, its not. What it’s about is that god did not save five other people, three of them children. [Read more…]

Catholic seniors in a Catholic high school directly challenged Catholic bigwigs from the archdiocese who convened a special assembly just for seniors to try to persuade them to vote against gay marriage in Minnesota on a constitutional amendment next fall. [Read more…]

Sanal Edamaruku is the head of the Indian Rationalist Association and has a flair for the dramatic.

Long-time readers of this blog will recall the time I wrote about a Hindu ‘tantric guru’ (whatever the hell that is) who claimed that he could kill someone without touching him or her, just by performing rituals. Edmaruku challenged the guru to kill him on live TV and hilarity ensued as he laughed and taunted the guru as the latter desperately went through his entire repertoire of mumbo-jumbo to no avail. Now that is what I call must-see TV. [Read more…]