Friday, 28 February 2014

Eccles bad hymn award - the winners!

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Well, after discussing 27 nominations for the Eccles Bad Hymn Award , it's time to give out some prizes. In the end we decided to disqu...
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Wednesday, 26 February 2014

The Unbelievers

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Learning from the excellent Protect the Pope site that Richard Dawkins's film The Unbelievers has been a total flop, grossing only $14...
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Tuesday, 25 February 2014

Harriet Harman linked to sinister organization

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MP Harriet Harman was under increasing pressure today to grovel on the floor and apologise, after six days of uncomfortable questions abo...
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Monday, 24 February 2014

Tobit

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Today we have a new recruit to the Eccles Bible Class, namely Graham Norton, a TV "celebrity", who described Catholics defending ...
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Saturday, 22 February 2014

Cardinal Nichols profiles Damian Thompson

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This morning Damian Thompson - brought up in Reading and a life-long fan of the Catholic Church - was expected to have dressed in the scarl...
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Thursday, 20 February 2014

Sacred cows

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The "two cows" joke, in a greatly expanded version, can be found here . For example: COMMUNISM You have two cows. The State takes...
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Sunday, 16 February 2014

Reading Francis through Eccles

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Pope Francis has a habit of making off-the-cuff remarks, some of which are misreported, mistranslated, misunderstood, or simply too profound...
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Friday, 14 February 2014

Celebrities move to Belgium

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Belgium has long been an attractive place for tax exiles: for example, in recent years the rock singer Johnny Hallyday and the actor Gérard ...
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Tuesday, 11 February 2014

Why Vladimir Putin made me join Femen

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Cristina Odone writes: I loathe Vladimir Putin. Have you noticed how all Russian tyrants have names ending in -in? Lenin, Stalin, Putin, ....
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Monday, 10 February 2014

QUAERITUR: Should I wake the priest?

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Dear Father E, when I make Confession I often find that the priest starts yawning. Sometimes, he even asks me to repeat some of my sins - th...
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Sunday, 9 February 2014

Cornwell cut off by a flood

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Following a flood of hostile criticism, it has been announced that John Cornwell, whose work is sometimes known as "Hitler's Pap...
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