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Over the last two days, the sun has reappeared at Gamone, after weeks of damp overcast skies. I decided to take out my my warm-weather work...

They're colorful creatures. Kept in a domestic cage, fed periodically on spiritual tidbits (cereal wafers and cheap wine, with holy wate...

A complaint was lodged this morning urging the International Criminal Court in The Hague to investigate Benedict XV and three senior Vatic...

I've often felt that, for Catholics, the human body—alive or dead—is a huge problem: indeed a puzzling obstacle that sends them into a s...

Richard Dawkins must have a slight masochistic foible, otherwise I can't imagine why he would risk spoiling the lovely pagan family fes...

The book entitled Light of the World: The Pope, the Church and the Sign of the Times (what a heavy-handed and uninspired title, no doubt du...

An excellent article by Diane La Phung in the French Internet daily Rue 89 examines a fascinating subject: the new style of papal wear int...

Nothing less than ridicule will put an end to antiquated conflicts labeled Vatican versus Science . In the right corner (Jesus saved the rob...

Watching this amateur video of Richard Dawkins standing up in a London crowd and speaking out against the pope, I was immediately reminded ...

In the context of the pope and priestly pedophilia, the brilliant British barrister Geoffrey Robertson knows what he's talking about, a...

Lovers of religious art might marvel at the sensitivity and tenderness behind this flowery " Mary and child " . The Virgin appears...

Yesterday, in his Edinburgh speech, Benedict XVI referred to the "Nazi tyranny that wished to eradicate God from society and denied ou...

I know little about Joseph Stalin 's sense of humor, but I would imagine that he was cracking a joke when he once asked sarcastically: ...

Ratzi and his colleagues at Vatican City (a Mickey Mouse "state" created in 1929 under Benito Mussolini ) are furious because Be...

No, my pretty Benny, it's not good enough to simply ask for pardon for the sins of the past, and pray that they won't reoccur. The m...

I found this funny story in the excellent Pharyngula blog by PZ Myers [ access ] . The history of Catholicism is filled with magic happeni...

An idiotic priest at the Vatican named Raniero Cantalamessa dared to say in a Good Friday homily in St Peter's Basilica, heard by Bened...

Computer atheists refer kindly to the pope as Benny Hex , since 16-based counting is designated as hexadecimal. More rapidly than expected, ...

[Click the image to access the Dawkins article] In The Washington Post , this is splendid "strident" Dawkins (he hates that adjec...

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil... It might work for monkeys... but there's no way in the world that this approach can be adopt...