The hotline exists since March 2010. 72 percent of the victims who reported violence to the hotline were male. 28 percent female. Most of the violent criminals were sacred priests. The rest of the ones who like to practice violence in the church were nuns and employees.

78,2 percent of the violent perpetrators were male. The most common scene of violence is the Catholic college and the Catholic asylum by 55,8 percent. Austrias province Upper Austria is on the top of the incidents, followed by Vienna and Lower Austria. Most of the victims are children from socially deprived families between 7 and 14 years. 12 percent of the victims were 6 years or even younger.

40,4 precent of the perpetrators demanded their victims to keep silent. They threatened them with more violence, sin, and even with an attendance in hell, if they would speak what happened.

The independent hotline for victims of clerical violence demands more motivation from the government for a solution of the situation. To let the church do the investigations is like setting a fox to keep the geese, said a spokesman of the hotline. It was confirmed that the incidents weren’t done by some few “black sheeps”. The massive numbers of incidents show a collective failure of the church in Austria.

A 55-year-old nun from Scotland inherits the brothel of her 75-year-old mother located in Austrias province Styria. An extremely profitable inheritage, because the business is going very well, reports the newspaper.

The 75-year-old bordello queen was a famous circus performer in her girlhood. Besides the prosperous brothel she also leaves behind a sizable capital on her bank account. She had no husband and no other children. So the nun is the exclusive heiress.

The nun was found by a family tree search done by the Viennese historian office. At first it was not known that the decedent had a daughter. There was no last will either.

The mother of the nun led an adventurous life. First she moved as a very young girl from Austria to Hamburg. Later she joined a travelling circus and started a successful career as exceptionally gifted artist. Then she travelled around the world. During her stay in Scotland she could not resist the charm of Scottish men. The final result was a pregnancy. After the birth she delivered her daughter to the next orphan asylum and continued her trip around the world. She has never seen her daughter again.

The nun sold the brothel and donated all of the money to India, reported the newspaper.

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In an interview with a daily newspaper, the controversial Austrian pastor who also enjoys to watch football matches, declared that “Voodoo worship in Haiti is interesting.” Literally he said that “it’s interesting that there are 90 percent of Voodoo followers in Haiti.”

The pastor who was designated to be the next auxiliary bishop of Linz, had to quit his accession to office because castigators criticised his conservative disposition.

Austrias Broadcasting Corporation ORF explains that in fact 80 percent of Haitis inhabitants are Catholics. 10 percent follow other Chrisitian churches, and only the rest might follow Voodoo practices. “Haiti has only a few Voodoo followers”, is written on the ORF website. Many Haiti experts doubt the high percentage of Voodoo believers in the Caribbean country, which are published in some certain sources.

The main base of his critics are “grievances” in the diocese of Linz. He tries to express his discovery with folllowing harsh words: “The hat is burning in Austrias Catholic church.” The pastor who is also a passionate football fan of the Upper Austrian club “LASK Linz”, also known as the “Black and whites”, complains that there are many splitters in his religious organization.

He continues his critics that “the church tries to cover those corpses which can be found in its cellar.” “Problems are obviously visible. Solutions not desirable. The church prefers to keep silent”, he confirms.

The controversial man and passionate football supporter also moans about the increasing numbers of pastoral employees, who do not scrutinize the didactic authority of the church, and have problems to accept the Catholic moral doctrine for themselfes.

He also can’t bear “broke priests” who tries to gain influence and pursue a “rebellion against pope and church.” In his closing word he demands “to be as keen as mustard” for the Catholic church.

His sorrows are justified. Austrians leave their church in masses, confirms the latest statistics.

There was a lot of trouble in 2009. Controversial statements of Feldkirchens bishop. He said that it’s possible to heal homosexuality. There was also displeasure in the province of Upper Austria. A football supporter of the club “LASK” was designated to the suffragan bishop of Linz. But only for a short time. He resigned after few weeks after a medial witch hunt.

The happiest Roman Catholics are living in Austrias most southern province of Carinthia. Carinthia has the fewest seccesions from the church. Vienna is located in the middle of the secessions.

Most of the secessions in 2009 were booked in the province of Vorarlberg (+40,3%), followed by Styria (+35,1%) and Salzburg (+34,3%). The fewest in Carinthia (+15,1%), Lower Austria (+18,3%), and Burgenland (+24,5%).

The spokesman of the archdiocese in Vienna declared that every secession is accompanied by a lot of pain for the clerical community. But he also said that “the numbers are still quite steady.”

“Zero tolerance for open shops on 8th December”, was the motto of 250 Catholic demonstrators in the city centre of Salzburg yesterday. The ultra religious group called “Catholic Action” can’t endure open shops and busy humans with loads of shopping bags on December the 8th.

“Our 8th December is called Maria Empfängnis and not Maria Shopping”, explained on of the protesters to journalists. Even local celebrities took part in the protest. One of them, a famous TV man, was talking about the fact that the church did not try to popularise the 8th December as a clerical feast day.

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Religious Catholics in a small village in the federal state Burgenland can’t visit their church anymore. An angry man has occupied the building and locked the doors.

The man is known to the authorities and has a custodian. The police can’t do anything against the situation because there is no complaint from the church. A spokesman of the diocese explained that it’s possible to remove the illegal occupier by force, but that’s against the spiritual law of Christian love. The only solution is to wait and hope that the man is going to lose his joy in the church and gives up.

Villach has twelve municipal kindergartens and six after school care centres with more than 1.600 children. The social city council who decided the prohobition is a member of the Socialdemocrats. The managers of the kindergartens and after school care centres had no counter-arguments against the new law and accepted the decision without complaints.

Not even one single parental was complaining. It seems Halloween has a very low approval in Austria. The foreign celebration is only media-hyped.

Carinthias municipal kindergartens prefer to celebrate more traditional parties like thanksgiving or martinmas instead of Halloween. “Especially Saint Martin has a very positive meaning because this guy shared with the poorest people”, explains Villachs Socialdemocratic city council. The politican prefers to adopt celebrations from Carinthias neighbour countries Italy or Slovenia first instead of something strange from the USA, if there should be new things to celebrate.

The bishop explains that the magazine just gave a “distorting rendition” of his opinion. He tells that he was talking about “lenity” for women who had an abortion. “The church wants to protect the children who are not able to defend themselfes. The church also wants to protect mothers from the pressure of other persons who wants them to have an abortion”, he says.

The bishop claims his most important concern is the help for pregnant womem in misery. He is quite angry about the news magazine for such a publication. “Betrayal of confidence”, was the expression he used in this case. The bishop thinks that such kind of journalism is sensational and worthless.

A famous religious website published an interview with the bishop as well. In that interview he also said that “abortion is a crime”. But there was no direct desire for a punishment indeed. The bishop always confirmed the help for pregnant women who are thinking to have an abortion. He only wants a punishment for irresponsibility and profiteering with human lifes. So here we have the punishment saying. Maybe the truth is somewhere in the middle? In fact it’s possible to read a lot into the the demand “punishment for irresponsibility”.

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The church of a Tirolean village was the victim of an immoral assault against public morals. Somebody sticked dreadful porn pictures into the prayer books.

Porn pictures in prayer books fulfil the criminal statement of facts of “vilification of religious theories”. The pastor is upset because the unwanted enrichment was fixed quite sophisticated, and because of that it’s very difficult to remove it. The police is already engaged and hopes for helpful hints from the population.

Nasty and controversial comments about the case were posted in the comment column of Austrias Broadcasting Corporation website. One user wrote that those pornographic pictures were just a marketing gag to motivate people to go to church again. Another user claimed that those pictures should probably only illustrate the biblical story of Adam and Eve.