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Should Pope Benedict’s Vatican advisors sincerely believe he is the victim of a smear campaign, or wonder why his call for priests to live “as angels” has been greeted with derision, they could take a look at the case of Rev. Joseph Palanivel Jeyapaul. Fr. Jeyapaul was charged with sexually assaulting a 14 year old girl in Minnesota in 2005, shortly after he was discovered having an inappropriate relationship with a 16 year old girl. He was in India visiting his mother when the “relationship” was discovered by members of his church in Greenbush, Minnesota and was contacted by his...

In a story about why the U.S. Catholic Bishops have embraced Democratic-style universal health care, the Los Angeles Times noted that the Roman Catholic Church considers healthcare a basic human right, "a position the church has articulated since 1963, when it was included in a papal encyclical by Pope John XXIII." Indeed, healthcare is declared a right in the "Peace on Earth" encyclical. That is also the basis of Obamacare.

Here are a couple of more reasons for a Wednesday crucifixion/Sabbath resurrection. If you’re coming in late, read first “Christ died on a Wednesday” thread. Eleventh reason: The 6 of Sivan is Pentecost on the Hebrew calendar. In the year of Yeshuas crucifixion, 30 AD, Pentecost was on a Friday. The Holy Spirit appeared early that morning just before 9 AM. Act 2:1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. Act 2:15 For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the...

Thousands of girls and boys were raped and tortured, and many were murdered, in Canada's aboriginal boarding schools, most of which shut down in the 1970's. The unchecked criminal violence suffered by these girls and boys has become a major cause of rampant child prostitution and other serious social ills among several generations of Canada's First Nations (Native/indigenous) peoples. This violence is called genocide.