Vatican: Condoms can stop diseases

The Vatican clarified that the Pope did not approve condoms for contraception.

Vatican: Condoms can stop diseases

The Vatican clarified that the Pope did not approve condoms for contraception.

Vatican: Condoms can stop diseases

The Vatican clarified that the Pope did not approve condoms for contraception.

Catholics defy Pope, hand out condoms

German schools angry over church abuse scandal

(Munich) German educators sharply criticized Catholic church officials for their handling of a spiraling child abuse scandal even as more alledged victims came forward Thursday, including a former member of the all-boys choir led by the pope’s brother.

The uproar came a day before Germany’s highest bishop was to meet Pope …

Struggling Anglican leader in Rome for papal talks

(Rome) The Archbishop of Canterbury sought Thursday to downplay the implications of the Vatican’s unprecedented invitation for Anglicans to join the Catholic Church as he arrived in Rome for his first talks with the pope on the new policy.

Archbishop Rowan Williams’ three-day visit, which began Thursday with a lecture and …

Murder suspect thought Puerto Rico gay teen was a woman

365gay has new information on the murder investigation surrounding the decapitation and dismemberment of Puerto Rican teen Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado.

According to friends of Lopez Mercado, the suspect’s house was radied by police, where they found a burned mattress and pvc pope, a wig, two knives and a “big blood …

Comedian: End world hunger? Sell the Vatican

(Rome) Comedian Sarah Silverman has a new proposal for ending world hunger: Sell the Vatican.

In a new profanity-laced monologue making the rounds on YouTube in time for U.N. World Food Day on Friday, Silverman suggests that it’s time for the pope to “move out of your house that is a …

Vatican does U-turn to praise Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde once said, ‘We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars’ and in a heavenly way the gay playwright found praise today from an unlikely source – the Vatican.

In its second U-turn in a week, the official mouthpiece of Pope Benedict XVI, L’Osservatore Romano, wrote that he was a man ‘always looking for the beautiful and the good but also for God’.

It also added that: ‘Wilde was a fortunate man, as more than 100 years after his death his works had not been forgotten and continue to fly off the shelves.’

The eulogy comes just days after the Vatican changed its stance to give its approval to JK Rowling’s Harry Potter – who it had once described as the ‘wrong kind of hero’.

Wilde, who converted to Roman Catholicism as he lay dying in a Paris hotel bed in 1900, served two years in prison for acts of gross indecency with men, and his behaviour shocked strait-laced Victorian England.

Given his homosexual tendencies and the Catholic Church’s strict view of homosexuality, the fact that it had now embraced him was all the more surprising.

The article praising the Irish-born writer was headlined ‘When Oscar Wilde met Pius IX’ and was a review of a new book on him called ‘A Portrait of Oscar Widle’ by Italian author Paolo Gulisano.

L’Osservatore Romano wrote: ‘Oscar Wilde was a man constantly looking for the beautiful and the good, but also for a God that he never challenged, respected and who he fully embraced after his dramatic experience of jail, concluding with his communion in the Catholic Church.’

Monda also noted how Dublin-born Wilde had said that ‘Catholicism was the only religion to die in’ and also recalled his little remembered audience with Pope Pius IX in 1877.

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‘MASH’ Star David Ogden Stiers Is Gay And “Very Proud To Be So”

‘M*A*S*H*’ Star David Ogden Stiers has just revealed he is gay. Stiers has had a long career with acting in Disney movies and now has found it right to come out of the closet

. According to POPEATER, “When asked by the Gossip Boy blog if he was gay, the actor replied, “Yes, I am. Very proud to be so,” according to WENN. See