Showing posts with label Cardinal Zen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cardinal Zen. Show all posts
Tuesday, 2 July 2024

Zen and the art of Michael Lofton maintenance

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The story so far: You are a middle-aged man with a big head and a small beard, running a popular and lucrative website that some days has m...
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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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Saturday, 7 January 2023

How to conduct a papal funeral

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Today we have another instalment in our long-running series "How to be a good pope", providing useful advice to those readers (Hi...
Sunday, 27 November 2022

Francis "shocked" to discover that China is ruled by baddies

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The Vatican-China deal (arranged by that wily oriental Pa-Ro Lin) is now in tatters, after the Chinese went ahead and appointed two new card...
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Sunday, 15 May 2022

A good pope deals with China

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Yes, it's another in that interminable series "How to be a good pope", intended as useful advice for those readers who will b...
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Thursday, 17 February 2022

Pope Francis goes on the attack

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Pope Francis has finally decided to clamp down on undesirable conduct in the Catholic Church. That's telling them! When asked to gi...
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Saturday, 27 November 2021

Beatitudes for popes

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Since Pope Francis has kindly produced eight modern non-rigid Vatican-II compatible platitudes beatitudes for bishops (yes, really ), we fe...
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Sunday, 10 October 2021

How to receive papal guests

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Yes, it's another one in our series "How to be a good pope", containing top tips for those readers who may end up with the big...
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Tuesday, 29 June 2021

The Pope writes to the Beast

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Scholars have long known that James J. Martin S.J. was the Beast of the Apocalypse , and it was no surprise to Francis-watchers this week wh...
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Thursday, 24 June 2021

How can a pope make friends?

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Yes, it's another one in our "How to be a good pope" series, directed to those readers who are suddenly pushed out onto the pa...
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Saturday, 13 March 2021

Will Francis visit persecuted Catholics in Rome?

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The Holy Father has had several recent diplomatic triumphs, visiting places where Catholics are persecuted: Iraq went very well, although Fr...
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Saturday, 30 January 2021

Even Pope Francis can't answer this!

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Here is today's brain teaser: How can one explain to children that - for example - their mother, abandoned by their father and often n...
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Tuesday, 29 September 2020

Zen and the art of being a good pope

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Yes, this is another in our series "How to be a good pope," designed to provide useful advice to any of our readers who might sudd...
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Monday, 13 April 2020

You are old, Father Francis

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For those who can't be bothered to wade through what is described - by Dr Austin Powers - as the most important interview since Scalfar...
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