Friday, 17 October 2014

Cardinals quarrel over which television show to watch

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More controversy has broken out in Rome at the Extraordinary Synod on the Family, where senior cardinals have been arguing over which Vatica...
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Thursday, 16 October 2014

In praise of Cardinal Kasper

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Coo-ee, Wally-babes!!?? Your Eminence, I mean!!?? It's little Judy Piranha here, the Nun on the Number 6 Bus, Entertainments Officer (!...
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Wednesday, 15 October 2014

Eccles hears some confessions

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During my time in Rome, participating in the very Extraordinary Synod on the Family, I went into St Peter's Basilica, and sat down for a...
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Monday, 13 October 2014

Catholic Church endorses a Dalek lifestyle

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We have reached the half-time point of the Extraordinary Synod on the Family, and the two teams have left the field to eat their oranges and...
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Saturday, 11 October 2014

Bitter disagreement at the Synod

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Reprinted from the Tablet , in the days when it was a religious newspaper. Whitby, A.D. 664 After a week of fierce debating, the Extraor...
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Friday, 10 October 2014

A lucky escape for Pope Francis

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Pope Francis today declared himself "delighted" that the Nobel Peace Prize had been awarded to Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Statya...
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Thursday, 9 October 2014

Graduality, or how to be saved the easy way

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Thanks to the Synod on the Family, the idea of graduality , also known as gradualism , has come back into fashion. The basic idea here is ...
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Tuesday, 7 October 2014

Sister Judy Piranha joins the blog

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Coo-ee, Eccles!!?? Remember me from Damian Thompson's blog??!! I'm Sister Judy Piranha of the Catholic Nuns for Naughtiness, and it...
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Monday, 6 October 2014

The Tablet's survey on the Family Synod

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A revised version of something else . Any accusations that the survey is slanted towards getting the answers that the Tabletistas prefer are...
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Sunday, 5 October 2014

The love poems of Kieran Conry

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With apologies to Robert Burns, William Shakespeare and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. My love is like a red, red rose; My other love's...
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Saturday, 4 October 2014

Liturgy for people marrying themselves

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With the announcement that Miss Grace Gelder has gone through a ceremony of marriage with herself, with the aid of Tiu de Haan, a "sub...
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Friday, 3 October 2014

Cardinal Kasper: the Pope's boss

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As the Vatican's Extraordinary Synod on the Family approaches, we were lucky to be able to talk to Cardinal Walter Kasper, the man who ...
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