Showing posts with label canonization. Show all posts
Showing posts with label canonization. Show all posts
Saturday, 19 July 2025

Eccles the violent

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Well, I've been suspended from Twitter/X before. Five years ago in fact, and I never did discover what I did wrong. The story of my prev...
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Sunday, 12 January 2025

Pope Francis wins a medal

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As he comes to the end of his term as president, Joe Biden has decided to give Presidential medals of Freedom to all his best friends: Bono,...
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Wednesday, 4 December 2019

No more old Catholics to be canonized

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A decision has come down from the Vatican that only Catholics inspired by the Spirit of Vatican II will henceforth be eligible for canoniz...
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Monday, 14 October 2019

Giving advice to St John Henry Newman

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A revised version of an old post, to celebrate the canonization of JHN. As a change from " Bad hymns ," we like to invite in so...
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Saturday, 12 October 2019

Newman was my kind of Catholic

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A guest contribution from Christopher Lambchop of the Tablet. There is little doubt that celebrity saint John Henry Newman would have been ...
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Friday, 2 August 2019

No halo for G.K. Chesterton

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The Madness of Peter Doyle , by Saint G.K. Chesterton. Father Brown always used to say that the strangest case he ever came across was tha...
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Saturday, 13 October 2018

Spirit of Vatican II to be canonized

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It was originally decided to canonize Pope Paul VI, on the basis of his heroic life and many miracles, such as the emptying of the churches,...
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Sunday, 16 October 2016

Martin Luther to be canonized

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As part of the celebrations of the Reformation, and to mark his excellent relations with the Lutherans - "After all, they're far mo...
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Saturday, 1 August 2015

Cecil the Lion to be canonized

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The death of Cecil the Lion ("the most popular African since Nelson Mandela") has hit the world hard, and both David Cameron and B...
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Wednesday, 21 January 2015

Je suis Capet

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Today, January 21st, is the anniversary of the murder in 1793 of Louis Auguste de France, King Louis XVI, known to his enemies as Citoyen Lo...
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Thursday, 30 October 2014

Pope Francis to be canonized

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Following vigorous demands from the singer Elton John and the rest of the liberal establishment, is has been agreed that Pope Francis should...
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Sunday, 18 May 2014

Exit Ruth Gledhill

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So Fleet Street's last religious affairs correspondent, Ruth Gledhill of the Times , has been made redundant. Said one commentator, ...
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Tuesday, 29 April 2014

How to keep the Pope busy

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A leaked Vatican memorandum has come our way. To: Cardinal Gerhard Müller, Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith. From: Alfred Xuere...
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Monday, 28 April 2014

Sir Simon Jenkins explains Canonization

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From the Guardian's " Comment is free and worth every penny " section. The Catholic Church declared two new saints at the we...
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Saturday, 26 April 2014

Pope canonizes Laurel and Hardy

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Although all eyes are on Rome this weekend for the canonization of Popes John XXIII and John-Paul II, we have learned that Pope Francis has ...
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