Subject: Roman Catholicism

• Last Night: BB King at the BankAtlantic Center

  May 5, 2008

• Channeling Jesus

  December 31, 1998

• Brothers in Alms

  January 8, 1998

• The Straight Dope

  January 15, 1998

• Best Place To See A Virgin

  May 11, 2000

• Best Charity

  May 17, 2001

• Bienes, Avellino, Madoff and The Church

  Bienes Knighted By Catholic Church Well, the Sun-Sentinel, apparently in a panic over the New York Times beating it to the story, finally reported on the connection between Fort Lauderdale philanthropist Michael Bienes and his partner, Frank Avellino, to Bernie Madoff, the $50 billion Ponzi schemer. I've rarely seen one newspaper so derelict in reporting a major story in its own back yard -- and its offering today is nothing but a small pile of dung. More on that late

  January 18, 2009

• Holocaust Denier Blessed by Pope, Cursed by S. Florida Jews

  This week Pope Benedict XVI reinstated Bishop Richard Williamson after 20 years of excommunication from the Catholic Church. Williamson' excommunicable offense was being consecrated without the Vatican's consent (which sounds like some hardcore Da Vinci Code shit, right?) but the offense that's caused an international uproar is Williamson's denial that the holocaust happened. The church says Williamson will be "rehabilitated."That's not good enough for members of the South Florida Holocaust Docu

  January 29, 2009

• St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Monsignor On Madoff Victim List -- UPDATED

  The full list of Bernie Madoff fraud victims has been released by the court and among them is St. Thomas Aquinas High, the football powerhouse private Catholic school in Fort Lauderdale.   Listed as the representative for the St. Thomas account is Monsignor Vincent Kelly, who also is personally named as an investor in the $50 billion fraud. Kelly is the supervising principal at St. Thomas and has served as the curriculum director for the entire Archdiocese of Miami.

  February 5, 2009

• Local Head Lice Experts Scratch Heads Over The Onion; Catholic Church Discovers Legal System

  The staff of The Onion might have had a good laugh about this fake story about lice infecting the U.S. Senate, but Lice Solutions Resource Network Inc. of West Palm Beach says the article makes light of a very serious problem. Katie Shepherd, the resource network's executive director, says she once had to take an emergency flight to D.C. to help treat a lice infestation. She had been called there to help the family of a lobbyist, an infestation that most of us would simply call karma.Shepherd ex

  February 24, 2009

• Catholic School to Go Public

  St. Stephen Catholic School in Miramar will close at the end of the school year and the space will be taken over by a public charter school this fall, according to Sister Mary David Magee, the school's principal.   On St. Stephen's Facebook page (Sorry, no link. You'll have to log onto your own account and search yourself), it says the school will be run by a company called Somerset Academy. "Religion will not be taught nor spoken about (just as a regular public school)," a Facebook posting

  March 17, 2009

• How Does One Recognize the Four Year Anniversary of the Death of a Politically Exploited Brain Dead Woman?

  The answer, apparently, is to exploit Terri Schiavo one more time, as Ave Maria is doing today. The Catholic city, which lies in the swamps east of Naples and was bankrolled by a pizza delivery baron, is staging a mass in Schiavo's honor. Because Schiavo was -- before she slipped into a persistent vegetative state -- a devout Roman Catholic. Or, more accurately, because her brother Bobby Schindler is a devout Roman Catholic who seems intent on keeping this circular debate swirling into the next

  March 31, 2009

• Madoff's Man

  Fort Lauderdale multimillionaire Michael Bienes never cut ties with Bernie Madoff — even after the SEC shut him down.

  January 22, 2009

• In the Spirit of Waugh

  A good nine hours lighter than its TV predecessor, Brideshead Revisited gets back to the source

  July 31, 2008

• Speak No Evil

  When a Margate priest misbehaved, the archdiocese punished his secretary

  June 12, 2008

• Lambs to Slaughter

  Again and again, local claims of abuse point to one priest, the Rev. Neil Doherty, and the Catholic archdiocese that protected him

  April 17, 2008

• Priestin' Ain't Easy

  For a couple of Delray padres, the high life allegedly got in the way of their priestly duties

  March 20, 2008

• Out, Out, Young Sprout

  January 3, 2008

• Free This Priest

  October 27, 2005

• A Priest, an Altarboy, and a Nun

  Walk into a confessional…

  December 13, 2007

• Blubber for Cash

  Bucking the health food tide: This middle school says, "Let 'em eat dougnuts."

  December 21, 2006

• Letters for September 21-27, 2006

  September 21, 2006

• Stop the Internets!

  The Sun-Sentinel was quick to back a high school's online witch-hunt

  February 16, 2006

• Tailpipe

  Clam Up

  July 7, 2005

• Proselytizing 101

  December 1, 2005

• The Old Man and the Fish

  Did Marlins skipper Jack McKeon ever tell you about the time... ?

  June 2, 2005

• Artbeat

  Capsule reviews of current area art exhibitions.

  November 4, 2004

• Artbeat

  October 28, 2004

• Artbeat

  October 21, 2004

• Artbeat

  October 14, 2004

• Father Gomorrah

  He's a Catholic priest who plans to marry his gay partner

  March 18, 2004

• Our Lady of Hollywood

  Rosa Lopez welcomes the Virgin Mary to her home every month. Hallelujah!

  September 4, 2003

• Habitat for Inhumanity

  The "asylums" depicted in The Magdalene Sisters undermine both the Catholic Church and the popular image of Ireland

  August 21, 2003

• Murdered in Havana

  After the Catholic Church banished him, Cuba welcomed him. But the vibrant new life George Zirwas created for himself soon ended in tragic death.

  April 17, 2003

• Poor Ferdy

  Ferdinand Mahfood embezzled thousands of dollars from his own charity to support his mistresses. So why is he hanging around?

  March 22, 2001

• Best of Both Broadways

  The Off-Broadway, On Center Series

  September 28, 2000

• Sinéad O'Connor

  Faith and Courage (Atlantic)

  July 27, 2000

• New to You

  Stigmata

  September 16, 1999

• Padre Pio's Big Adventure

  A little piece of a bleeding Italian priest has traveled here to help in the healing

  August 12, 1999

• New in Film

  May 14, 2009