Marcial Maciel Degollado, a priest from Mexico is a walking contradiction. He was the greatest postwar fundraiser for the Catholic Church, and its greatest criminal. Pope Benedict XVI described Degollado as “A life … out of moral bounds,” and a “wasted, twisted life.” In the 1940’s Degollado founded the religious order, The Legion of Christ. Degollado […]
A German by the name of Ralph Napierski attempted to walk into secret talks to discuss the succession of resigned Pope Benedict XVI on Monday at the Vatican. Napierski was wearing a makeshift bishop’s cloak, had his own entourage of fake clerics, and to make the whole thing seem authentic, posed for photos with real bishops […]
Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turksan is the front runner to replace Pope Benedict from the the bookmaker’s point of view. If elected, Turkson would lead 1, 2 billion members of the Roman-Catholic church, this would be the first time in a millennium that the Catholic church would be under the headship of a non-European. Paddy Power […]
Pope Benedict XVI tweeted for the first time yesterday from a personal Twitter account. This follows last week’s announcement by the Vatican that Benedict would begin posting messages on Twitter in eight languages under the handle @pontifex – a Latin term for pope that means “bridge builder.”
Susan Sarandon has really rubbed America’s largest Catholic civil rights organization up the wrong way. The actress raised eyebrows the other day when she referred to Pope Benedict as a “Nazi”, and the Catholic League is now lashing out at her. The league claims that what Susie said was positively obscene, showing “unparalleled ignorance”.