Sunday, 30 June 2024

The Pope needs some common cents!

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Today we are celebrating the solemnity of St Peter and St Paul, and so this is also the time when the Pope gets out his begging bowl and ask...
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Friday, 21 June 2024

How to conduct a trial for schism

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This is another in our long-running series on "How to be a good Pope", which is read regularly by Pope Francis and his likely succ...
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Wednesday, 19 June 2024

Pope Francis decides to reform all masses

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Pope Francis the Peacemaker has finally found a compromise between all the different factions in the Catholic Church (including those who ...
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Sunday, 16 June 2024

The Synod of Comics and the Synod of Despots

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As a by-product of the Synod on Synodal Synodality, Pope Francis is enjoying synods so much that he decided to hold two more. Getting r...
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Sunday, 2 June 2024

It's Sloth Pride!

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Brother Eccles couldn't be bothered to write this post himself, so we arranged for someone else to put it together. We are lazy, and w...
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Wednesday, 29 May 2024

Paul the Apostle accused of using offensive words

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Corinth, 56 A.D. Senior Catholic Paul the Apostle (formerly Saul of Tarsus) has stunned the Roman church today by using derogatory langua...
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Monday, 27 May 2024

The eight greatest Catholic leaders

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I'm using this post to record the results of the final rounds of the World Cup of Great Catholic leaders . Many well-known "leader...
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Sunday, 19 May 2024

Pentecost Special

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Some of this is true, some of it exaggerated. Decide for yourselves which is which. To Mass on Pentecost Sunday. We were told in advance t...
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Thursday, 2 May 2024

The six Eccles laws

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Spending 23 hours per day on Twitter has enabled me to appreciate some fundamental truths, which need to be recognised more widely. This pos...
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Tuesday, 23 April 2024

World Cup of Great Catholic Leaders - nominations, please!

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Well, the World Cup of Misused Churches has been a bit of an anti-climax, as the polling was probably the slowest of any of these World C...
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Saturday, 20 April 2024

Compromise found in the Rupnik case

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Fr Marko Rupnik, you will recall, is accused of a variety of sexual offences, including rape, some of them so disgusting that even Cardinal ...
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Wednesday, 10 April 2024

A history of popesplaining

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Although the word "popesplain" is of very recent origin (it has not yet reached the Oxford English Dictionary), popesplaining as a...
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Monday, 8 April 2024

Misused churches - the final rounds

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We introduced the World Cup of Misused Churches here . This post will be used for the results of the quarter-finals and later rounds. Here ...
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Monday, 1 April 2024

The Book of St Richard, Chapter 31

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Continued from Chapter 30 . 1. It came to pass, the following Easter, that strange events took place in the mighty city of Lon-don, of whic...
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