Pope Benedict XYZ has joined the troupe of pontificating public figures to lash out at consumer culture. Speaking at a formal address before tens of thousands of young Australian Roman Catholics, the Holy One warned that natural resources were being squandered and that people were worshipping false idols in the… read more…

Barack Obama has said that he would continue to back Bush's scheme of involving religious groups in government initiatives. BBC. The Government's targets to build three million new homes by 2020 may not be enough to meet demand. ePolitix. Rising food prices have meant that one in five UK residents… read more…

Those pesky liberals are always causing trouble for somebody, it seems. Be it the owners of factories employing child labour, racists, sexists, or homophobes, you can just about guarantee that some snot nosed punk will come crawling along and attempt to put a spanner in the works. If the Bishop… read more…

Tony Blair came out of the holy closet today by revealing that his new purpose in life is to breed understanding between the world's religions. With a manic gleam in his unblinking eyes, he told the interviewers at Time Magazine that Christianity had long been a part of his life,… read more…

Old Man John McCain has joined the 'Pastors in the Closet' school of American politics by having a religious zealot get him into a spot of bother. Sharing resonance with the bump in the road that rival Barack Obama's campaign found itself having to get over after similar religious campaign… read more…

Religion has always been at the forefront of embracing modern technology - from using the Black And Decker Firestorm 3000 Series to burn witches, to installing a special Jesus-monitor on the next shuttle launch just in case the Messiah comes within close proximity and possibly affects any spacewalks that… read more…

Faith and religion have become contentious issues of late, what with heavyweights such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens weighing in with their opinions on the apparent uselessness of the whole ideology. None of which stopped ex-PM Tony Blair converting to Catholicism last year (how's that 'forgiving sins' angle… read more…