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Catholic Priest Admits To Being Secretly Married

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 05.02.2012

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Father Kevin Lee, a Catholic Priest who presided over Padre Pio parish in Sydney, Australia, admitted to being secretly married for a year, and says m...

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Priest Shows Porn to Parishioners: Those Lucky Catholics

Tony Phillips | Posted 04.04.2012

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Tony Phillips

Nowadays churchgoers never know when they might catch a glimpse of hardcore porn at a school meeting to discuss their children's first communions.

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Ages Of Man, And Of A Friend

Christopher Meeks | Posted 03.08.2012

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Christopher Meeks

There's a stage of life that Shakespeare didn't define, but it's the decade where everyone you love starts dying.

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2011 Year-End Wrap Up: The Underrated Films of 2011

Scott Mendelson | Posted 02.27.2012

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Scott Mendelson

Here are ten films that qualify as "underrated." Some of them are good, if not great films, that were unfairly maligned. Others were mediocrities that nonetheless did not deserve the level of scorn which they received.

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Priests and Porn Addiction - A Full Scale Farce

Bethany St. James | Posted 01.28.2012

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Bethany St. James

Sex was around far before pornography was. Before the cyber age, I'm sure priests, rabbis and clergy from all religious affiliations were aware it existed. It didn't take porn sites and web cams to bring it to their attention.

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Parish Priest Compares Irish Leader to Hitler as Church/State War Escalates

Niall O'Dowd | Posted 09.27.2011

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Niall O'Dowd

A parish priest in Ireland has compared Enda Kenny, the Irish leader, to Hitler. It is the latest volley in the war between church and state that has transfixed the country.

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Former Windsor Priest Pleads Guilty To 1950's Sex Charges

ca.news.yahoo.com | Posted 08.08.2011

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CBC Former priest and teacher William Hodgson Marshall, 88, pleaded guilty in a Windsor, Ont., court on 17 sex assault charges for crimes he committed...

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Cinefantastique Spotlight: Priest

Dan Persons | Posted 07.17.2011

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Dan Persons

The producers of Priest are hoping you're jazzed to see a ravaged world in which the war between humanity and blind, sluglike creatures called vampires has reached a stalemate.

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Weekend Box Office: Bridesmaids Scores, Thor Repeats on Top, Priest Survives

Scott Mendelson | Posted 07.15.2011

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Scott Mendelson

You can write up Bridesmaids as a triumph for female-driven comedies or just the triumph of a terrific movie opening well. In a just world, Kristen Wiig would be getting Oscar talk.

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'The Rite': Something To Believe In?

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cathleen Falsani

Faith is powerful, yes, the film posits, but so are the forces of darkness. It's not an easy fight and woe to the man who thinks it is.

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Say What? Lesbian Priests Marrying Each Other!

Irene Monroe | Posted 05.25.2011

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Irene Monroe

All couples like to bring the New Year in on a loving note. And what better way for two lesbian priests of the Episcopal Church to demonstrate thei...

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Egypt's Top Archaeologists Discover Nearly 4,500 Year Old Tomb

AP | BEN HUBBARD | Posted 05.25.2011

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CAIRO — Egypt's top archaeologist showed off the newly discovered tomb of a pharaonic priest on Tuesday, a find he said could point the way to a...

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Transforming Lives on This Side of the GTMO Wire

Peter Jan Honigsberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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Peter Jan Honigsberg

Much has been written on the lives of detainees in Guantanamo post September 11, 2001. But relatively little has been written about the lives of Ame...

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Brazilian Priest Convicted Of Sexual Abuse Arrested

AP | STAN LEHMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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SAO PAULO — Police say they have caught a Roman Catholic priest who disappeared after he was convicted of sexually abusing young girls in southe...

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WATCH: Skateboarding Priest Becomes Internet Sensation

Posted 05.25.2011

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In an effort to encourage more local youngsters to attend church, Hungarian priest Zoltan Lendavi is forgoing the sanctuary -- in favor of a skateboar...

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New Springfield Bishop Thomas Paprocki Once Blamed Devil For Sex Abuse Lawsuits

AP | CHRISTOPHER WILLS | Posted 05.25.2011

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A Chicago bishop who once blamed the devil for sexual abuse lawsuits against the Roman Catholic Church and proposed shielding th...

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Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican's Number 2: Priest Pedophilia Linked To Homosexuality

AP | BRAD HAYNES | Posted 05.25.2011

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SANTIAGO, Chile — The Vatican's second-highest authority says the sex scandals haunting the Roman Catholic Church are linked to homosexuality an...

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Here Comes the Bride: Wedding Etiquette

Lisa Mirza Grotts | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lisa Mirza Grotts

The happy couple will be making many decisions based on the number of people who will be in attendance, so you should respond to the invitation as soon as possible rather than waiting until the last minute.

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Employment Testing for the Priesthood Can Prevent Child Abuse

Jerry Chautin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jerry Chautin

Given the magnitude of the crisis in the clergy, asking the hard questions to ferret out prospective sexual abusers is a necessity.

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Priest Accused Of Abusing Boy, Turning Home Into 'Erotic Dungeon' Surrenders To Police

Posted 05.25.2011

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(AP) SAO PAULO - A Polish priest accused of sexually abusing a former altar boy in Rio de Janeiro and turning his parish home into an "erotic dungeon"...

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What Glenn Beck Doesn't Understand About Biblical Social Justice

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Wallis

Jesus said that we should love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us. I invited Beck to a civil and respectful conversation about the issues at stake here, but he has chosen a different path.

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Sorry Pope, It Hasn't Worked

Sandeep Gopalan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sandeep Gopalan

I apologize, but His Holiness's "I am truly sorry" has not persuaded his Irish flock. Regrettably, victims have already denounced it as inadequate, and the letter promises to be a PR disaster.

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Priests With Love Lives Speak Out Against Celibacy

AP | ANGELA CHARLTON and VICTOR L. SIMPSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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PARIS — Leon Laclau shared his life, and often, his bed, with Marga over 20 years – all while serving as a Catholic priest in a town in th...

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Celibacy Partly To Blame For Clerical Sex Abuse, Says Cardinal

timesonline.co.uk | Richard Owen | Posted 05.25.2011

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A cardinal seen as a future candidate for the papacy has broken a Vatican taboo by raising the possibility that priestly celibacy is among the causes ...

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Spanish Priest Spent $23,000 On Porn, Advertised Himself As Prostitute

Posted 05.25.2011

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Samuel Martin Martin, a 27-year-old Spanish priest, has been thrown out of the Church after it emerged he spent up to $23,000 of church money on a sex...

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