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Catholicism

09/02/2011 nozzferrahhtoo

Bringing the Scientific Method to Magic Crackers

I have long heard claims being made, specifically in the Catholic faith, that during certain ceremonies, when certain propitiations are made, that normal Cracker Bread is changed “literally” into the body of a long dead Jewish Human Male who displayed later Zombie tendencies to refuse to stay in the grave. ...

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17/08/2010 Michael Nugent

60 years on, time to remove the Angelus from RTE

This week 60 years ago, on the request of the Roman Catholic Archbishop John Charles McQuaid, Radio Eireann started to broadcast the Angelus. This daily call to prayer, still gifted by RTE to the Roman Catholic Church as a free prime time advertisement, has no place in a modern pluralist ...

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04/08/2010 Michael Nugent

Official – Vatican does compare child abuse with ordaining women

Apologists for the Vatican have recently claimed that the Catholic Church does not compare sexually abusing a child with attempting to ordain a woman, but that it merely included both crimes in the same document as a procedural matter. However, this is not true. A Vatican official has explicitly described ...

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29/07/2010 Michael Nugent

Read the Bible: The Resurrection of Jesus

One of Atheist Ireland’s campaigns is to encourage people to read the Christian Bible and the sacred texts of other religions. The physical resurrection of Jesus Christ is the central tenet of Christianity. But the evidence for this extraordinary claim is nonexistent outside the Christian Bible, and contradictory within the ...

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22/07/2010 Atheist Ireland

Is ordaining a woman worse than child sex abuse?

Apologists for the Catholic Church are correct that the Vatican is not equating women’s ordination with clerical paedophilia by referring to them in the same document, Normae de Gravioribus Delictis. In fact, the penalties in the document suggest that the Vatican actually considers attempting to ordain a woman to be ...

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19/07/2010 Atheist Ireland

Bishop promotes collective guilt for clerical sex abuse

Roman Catholic Bishop Donal McKeown yesterday (Sun 18 July) told members of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association that they should “Continue to do penance for the sins of those Church personnel who abused children,” because “We have all been diminished and humiliated by what they did.” This is an attempt ...

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27/11/2009 Atheist Ireland

Report by Commission of Investigation into Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin

On 29 November 2009, the Minister for Justice and Equality, in keeping with the statutory obligation under the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004, published Report of the Commission of Investigation into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin on the Department's website as well as through the Government Publications Office.  The report below ...

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14/08/2009 Atheist Ireland

Apostasy: how to leave the catholic church and why

Count Me Out, making leaving the Catholic Church easy. Apostasy refers to the defection from one's religion. Count Me Out was set up to make formally leaving the Catholic Church as straight forward and easy a process as possible. Edit: Due to a change in Canon Law the process to ...

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