Category Archives: Employees
US: Make-believe university sacks staff and trustees for supporting evolution
PE.com – Press-Enterprise A La Sierra University professor and three university trustees said they were dismissed for trying to resolve a years-long controversy over creationism and evolution that has threatened the religious institution’s accreditation. Lee Greer, an assistant professor of … Continue reading
Central African Republic: Don’t annoy the Christian militia…
…or you may end up in jail. SMH Mr Simpson, from the small village of Gillamoor, is languishing in a cell in Bangui – the capital of one of Africa’s wildest, most corrupt and least developed countries. He had stumbled … Continue reading
Vatican: Oh, bugger!
SMH THE Legion of Christ, a powerful worldwide religious order whose late founder became enmeshed in a sex scandal years ago, says the Vatican is investigating seven Legion priests for alleged sexual abuse of minors. The investigation cast a new … Continue reading
Australia: What part of ‘job description’ don’t you understand?
A SYDNEY Catholic priest who revealed he has been married for a year has been removed from his post by church officials. Father Kevin Lee, a priest at Padre Pio parish in Glenmore Park, told Channel Seven last night he … Continue reading
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Australia: Ex-priest to be charged with sex abuse
via SMH A retired Catholic priest and a one-time close personal friend of the Attorney-General, Greg Smith, is this morning expected to be charged over sexual abuse claims…. Mr Egan has been the subject of a police investigation that began … Continue reading
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Israel: ‘Messianic’ leaders mislead public
The recently retired chief of Israel’s domestic intelligence agency has described the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Defence Minister, Ehud Barak, as men driven by ”messianic feelings” and said that he had ”no faith” in them to lead a … Continue reading
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US: Catholic school fires teacher for undergoing IVF
Courthouse News Service A schoolteacher claims in Federal Court that the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend and St. Vincent de Paul School fired her and called her a “grave, immoral sinner” because she and her husband were trying to have … Continue reading
Australia: Where did he get that hubris? Oh, THAT’S where.
The Australian Federal Labor Party has not done too well lately out of its dealings with the devout. First there was the pious proselytising PM Kevin Rudd, whose major personality flaws led to his spectacular removal from the top job: … Continue reading
UK: Anglican Church not manly enough…
…. says the guy with the handlebar moustache. guardian.co.uk I for one was rather discomfited to find, in my 20s, just how many liberal Anglican clergy were gay, and how the issue dominated discussions; it partly led me to keep … Continue reading
US: His Eminence has never seen The Blues Brothers..
… or he’d know; you just don’t piss off nuns. NYTimes.com The Vatican has appointed an American bishop to rein in the largest and most influential group of Catholic nuns in the United States, saying that an investigation found that the … Continue reading
