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I wish I had written this Matt Taibbi blog post. It is so nasty, and so well-deserved.

But even worse - what does Dolan’s whiny deflecting and excuse-making say about the church as an arbiter of ethical values? These pompous assholes run around in their poofy robes and dresses shaking smoke-filled decanters with important expressions on their ( Read more... )

Nothing personal, Catholics, but your church leaders are total assholes. Very sarcastic and angry article which I agree with:
So who gets excommunicated for the 80,000 women who die from illegal abortion every year - and the 80,000-plus fetuses that die with them? Anti-abortion laws kill women, and don’t prevent the termination of pregnancies. ( Read more... )

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For those who are interested in these kinds of things, there's a new pope, Joseph "Benedict XVI" Ratzinger. Apparently he's really conservative. On one hand, this makes my complaints about the Roman Catholic Church's complete failure to emerge from the 10th century all the more relevant. On the other (more significant) hand, sucks to be you if ( Read more... )