Idiots Abroad: Church to Rape Victim: Frack You

This week’s Idiots Abroad Award goes to the Catholic Church.  Why?  Funny you should ask… Declaring that "life must always be protected", a senior Vatican cleric has defended the Catholic Church’s decision to excommunicate the mother and doctors of a nine-year-old rape victim who had a life-saving abortion in Brazil. Yes, you got that right.  [...]

Quote of the Day, 1-5-09

“The church has a message aimed at sinners (a group that comprises the whole human race), and yet it frequently acts as if only the sinless can be members in good standing.  In practice, of course, since the church can’t manage to exclude all sinners, it cannot maintain that pretense.  So it has settled, at [...]