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  • Cardinal Schönborn says celibacy partly to blame for clerical sex abuse

    03/11/2010 9:52:16 AM PST · by EveningStar · 49 replies · 731+ views
    The Times of London ^ | March 11, 2010 | Richard Owen
    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 of the sex abuse scandal sweeping the Roman Catholic Church.
  • Creationism dismissed as 'a kind of paganism' by Vatican's astronomer

    05/05/2006 8:21:56 AM PDT · by Right Wing Professor · 215 replies · 3,730+ views
    The Scotsman ^ | May 5, 2006 | IAN JOHNSTON
    BELIEVING that God created the universe in six days is a form of superstitious paganism, the Vatican astronomer Guy Consolmagno claimed yesterday. Brother Consolmagno, who works in a Vatican observatory in Arizona and as curator of the Vatican meteorite collection in Italy, said a "destructive myth" had developed in modern society that religion and science were competing ideologies. He described creationism, whose supporters want it taught in schools alongside evolution, as a "kind of paganism" because it harked back to the days of "nature gods" who were responsible for natural events. Brother Consolmagno argued that the Christian God was a...