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Vatican: Everyone can use condoms to prevent HIV

Jennifer Vanasco — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 21:30:34 +0000

(Vatican City) Using a condom is a lesser evil than transmitting HIV to a sexual partner – even if that means a woman averts a possible pregnancy, the Vatican said Tuesday, signaling a seismic(...)

Monday Watercooler: Congress might leave DADT alone in lame duck session

James Withers — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:32:11 +0000

Gates says repeal DADT. Congress yawns. Looks like the Democrats will leave “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” alone in this lame duck session. Sens. Carl Levin of Michigan and John McCain of Arizona,(...)

Monday Watercooler: Choi and Sherrod ask us to be better than we are

James Withers — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:01:02 +0000

Dan Choi at Netroots. The quibbles with Lt. Dan Choi are minor at best. Don’t protest in uniform. Trying to subpoena the President Obamais a tactic best left to birthers or Rod Blagojevich,(...)

Gay priest sex scandal caught on tape.

logointern2 — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:45:25 +0000

Italian news-magazine Panorama reportedly has footage of three Catholic priests frequenting several gay nightclubs and engaged in casual sex.

According to the Daily Mail, an undercover reporter(...)

Pope calls abortion, gay marriage insidious threat

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Thu, 13 May 2010 17:30:45 +0000

(Fatima, Portugal) Pope Benedict XVI has called abortion and same-sex marriage two of the most “insidious and dangerous” threats facing the world today.

Benedict made the comments Thursday to(...)

Pope blames church’s own sins for sex scandal

Jennifer Vanasco — Tue, 11 May 2010 13:16:29 +0000

(Lisbon, Portugal) Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday blamed the church’s own sins for the clerical abuse scandal – not a campaign mounted by outsiders – and called for profound purification to end(...)

Cardinal attacks former Vatican No. 2 on sex scandals

Jennifer Vanasco — Mon, 10 May 2010 19:00:11 +0000

(Vienna) Austria’s cardinal has said the former second-highest Vatican official blocked a probe into a sex abuse scandal that rocked the country’s Catholic church 15 years ago. Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn also accused Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the retired Vatican secretary of state, of causing “massive harm” to victims when he dismissed claims of clerical abuse as [...]

Brazil: Priest charged with 8 abusing boys

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:56:38 +0000

(Rio de Janeiro) A Roman Catholic priest in Brazil is facing charges he abused eight boys in cases dating back to 1995, prosecutors said Wednesday, adding to a growing list of allegations(...)

Ill. man sues Vatican, pope over Wis. abuse case

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:40:10 +0000

(Milwaukee) An Illinois man who says he was molested by a Wisconsin priest as a child filed a federal lawsuit Thursday accusing Pope Benedict XVI and senior Vatican officials of failing to(...)

Vatican tries to quell uproar over gay comment

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:00:55 +0000

(Vatican City) The Vatican on Wednesday tried to defuse growing anger over remarks by the pope’s top aide that the problem behind the pedophile priest scandals is homosexuality and not the(...)