In the very-Catholic Philippines, the government’s health department set up booths bearing the slogan ”Are You Sexually Active?” at a wholesale flower market in Manila.
Then when men bought their Valentine’s Day flowers, they were handed “Be Safe Always, Valentine” packs of condoms.
Wary of a Catholic backlash, however, due to the church’s opposition to birth control, President Gloria [...]

             Father Anthony and Bishop Timothy: Perfect for ribbon cutting and scaring off possible johns
 
In Ohio, a small group of monks from the Syro-Russian Orthodox Catholic Church have taken over the Canfield Colonial Motel and turned it into the Monastery Inn.
The motel was closed last year and former owner Arthur Klein was [...]

What’s become more common, teachers who have affairs with students or youth counselors who get a tad too close to the kids they’re allegedly trying to help?
The Detroit News reports that Rev. Russell Schaller, 35, a minister who has a reputation for reaching out to troubled teens and taking them into his home, has been [...]

Seeking to make itself more inclusive, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) has decided to allow non-celibate gay clergy and recognize same-sex couples.
The open-mindedness has caused a bit of a rift. What is Jesus’s love, after all, if not a tool to exclude people we may not like.
In Nebraska and Iowa, for instance, where [...]

According to the Orlando Sentinel, a judge in Florida angered Christian conservatives by allowing a gay couple to adopt a 1-year-old baby boy.
The kooks at the quasi-official sounding Orlando’s Florida Family Policy Council called the ruling “arrogant judicial activism” and included a photograph of the couple (the ones on the left) in a mailing to its [...]

In Georgia, Republican State Senator Rene Unterman is at odds with her state’s Christian Conservatives.
Unterman is pushing a bill which would get child prostitutes to be treated and rehabbed as victims and not charged with a crime.
The Christian Right, however, is seeing the change as a tacit legalization of child prostitution.
“Who will benefit from the [...]

Carrie Prejean continues to show off her brains while frolicking in the surf with boyfriend Kyle Boller, the St. Louis Rams quarterback who, by the way, is not her husband. The look on Carrie’s face says: “Save myself until marriage? Yeah, right. If Jesus didn’t want me to be popping out of my bikini he [...]

From the Daily Record:
At the recent funeral mass for former priest Gerry Nugent, the Archbishop of  Glasgow Mario Conti described Nugent, who had died of a heart attack, as “vulnerable” and “big-hearted”.
Nugent resigned the priesthood after he admitted to having sex with Angelika Kluk.
Hey, at least she was an adult woman.
The bigger problem was that [...]

If you’re not familiar with the sex scandal in Northern Ireland, this parody won’t make much sense to you, but to recap: Bible-toting, anti-gay, political crusader Iris Robinson, 60, is cheating on her husband, Peter Robinson, also a prominent politico, with a 19-year-old butcher’s son whom she offered money to to help start a restaurant.
Gays [...]

Today, my son, you become a man.
It’s the standard Bar Mitzvah line but it took on new meaning for two 13-year-old boys from near Albany N.Y.
The Albany Times-Union reports, their rabbi, Yaakov Weiss, 29, founder of the Chabad of Colonie and the Chabad Hebrew School, and himself a married father, pleaded guilty to one count of [...]