Surprise: Catholic Cardinal Blames Women for Church's Problems

Raymond Leo Burke is an American Catholic cardinal who was recently demoted by Pope Francis for insubordination. He's now in a largely ornamental job and thoroughly discredited, but seems to be turning his attention to a new foe: Women. The Church has become "feminized," Burke says, and that's what's tearing it…
Creepy Catholic Website Explains Why Women Shouldn't Go to College
If you're an 18-year-old adult woman on the fence about whether or not your parents "should" "let" you go to college, fret no more! The internet provides, as always, in the form of this staggeringly terrible listicle from FixTheFamily.com (which, as far as I can tell, is a machine where you put in Catholicism and the…
Shh: NY Catholic Church Quietly Paying for Birth Control, Abortions
The New York Archdiocese is suing the federal government to stop the mandate that employer-paid insurance policies must cover birth control, with Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York leading the fight claiming that it is unconstitutional to force the church to fund "such morally illicit activities." But it turns out…
LA Archdiocese Is Broke From Paying Victims of Child Molestation
Last Thursday, the Los Angeles Archdiocese released 12,000 pages of internal files on priests accused of sexually abusing children. This was supposed to complete the terms of the settlement they signed with victims six years ago (one that gave $660 million to more than 500 victims). However, many of the victims are…
'Birth Control Is Turning the Men Gay!' 14 Lessons from the Most Bizarre Anti-Contraception Video Ever
In the run-up to an election, it's not uncommon for special interest groups to release ads pushing a specific agenda in the hopes of swaying voters as they head to the polls. But only once in a generation does a social awareness ad reach the heights of hyperbole-murdering crazy reached by this anti-contraception…
Catholic Bishops Launch an Investigation Into the Evil Sex-Mongering Girl Scouts
The Girl Scouts have been the topic of much discussion among conservatives lately, and it's pretty much been determined that the little badge-wearing ladies are tiny minions of terror who run around spreading sexxxy liberal propaganda. Well, thank God, now the Catholic Church is getting involved and has decided to…
Nuns Are Probably the Best Thing the Catholic Church Has Going For It Nowadays
After the crusty old honchos at the Vatican on Wednesday charged the Leadership Conference of Women Religious with "radical feminism" and vowed to stamp out any perceived dissent from Church policies amongst nuns, the general public immediately offered the sisters its overwhelming support and sympathy, circulating…
American Nuns Busted for Being a Crazy Bunch of Radical Feminists
Offering further proof that the world is becoming an increasingly weird place, the Catholic Church has decided to crack down on American nuns who, as anyone who has been around a nun recently knows, are a bunch of freewheeling party sisters. Wait, what? Yes, the Vatican has just taken disciplinary action against a…
Women Try to Rebrand the Catholic Church's Position on Contraception
Catholicism is well known for its opposition to contraception, but some women within the church are attempting to paint the church's stance on birth control as freeing rather than restrictive. How are they going to pull that off? By promoting natural family planning as an accepted Catholic practice for avoiding…
Thanks to Catholic Church, 200 Suspected Child Molesters Are Roaming Free
At this point, we have pretty strict measures for keeping track of the whereabouts of convicted sex offenders once they've served their time. But unfortunately there's one large organization that's managed to circumvent these rules and seems to be fine with some 200 suspected child molesters living more or less…
Catholic University Refuses to Remove Rape Survivor from Anti-Choice Listserv
Sarah, a senior at Catholic University of America in Washington D.C., didn't appreciate being spammed about last month's March for Life on her school email address, so she emailed the sender, an Associate Campus Minister for Women's Ministry and Social Justice, and asked to be taken off the list. "I am a pro-choice…
Catholic Group Battles Government Over Right To Deny Birth Control & Abortions To Trafficking Victims
Once again Republicans are accusing the Obama administration of religious discrimination because they believe "freedom of religion" means that they should have the freedom to impose their religious beliefs on every American. Sadly this time they're toying with the health of one of the most vulnerable groups…
The Catholic Church Has Been Quietly Selling Porn In Germany
The Catholic Church is no stranger to preaching one thing and doing another. There are, of course, the recent sexual abuse cases, and who can forget the Crusades? Now we have a new—less egregious but still annoying—violation to add to the list! Here goes: It turns out that the Catholic Church in Germany owns a…
