Saturday, 28 January 2017

Fake News from Rome

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During the American presidential election, and since, various organizations such as CNN and the New York Times were revealed to be issuing f...
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Friday, 27 January 2017

Reading Francis through Rex Mottram

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In Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited the character Rex Mottram gives us a useful way to interpret Pope Francis. 'Supposing the ...
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Wednesday, 25 January 2017

Pope forces Dalai Lama to resign

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After his brilliant triumph in bluffing Fra' Matthew Festing, the Grandmaster of the Knight of Malta, into resigning (in spite of the ...
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Monday, 23 January 2017

Sister Judy Piranha attends the Women's March

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Coo-ee, everyone!!??!! It's Sister Judy Piranha of the Catholic Nuns for Naughtiness back once more!!??!! I'm a disciple of those sp...
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Sunday, 22 January 2017

Learning from the Anglicans

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As a respite from all the excitement in the Catholic church, let's see what the Anglicans have done recently, and whether we can learn f...
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Saturday, 21 January 2017

Cardinal Dolan and the Inauguration

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Should Cardinal Dolan have participated in the inauguration of the new leader of the free world? Let's look at the facts. , Cardinal ...
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Friday, 20 January 2017

How the Grech stole Christ

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Dr Seuss's book How the Grech stole Christ is a children's story that tells of a funny creature called "Bishop" Grech who...
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Thursday, 19 January 2017

O worship the pope!

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We strongly recommend this video by Emily Clarke , which has been produced in honour of Pope Francis, due to visit Ireland next year to see ...
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Sunday, 15 January 2017

Defending an unpopular pope

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Most of my readers have never been pope, and probably only one or two ever will be, so you don't realise how difficult the job of a pope...
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Wednesday, 11 January 2017

Anti-religious extremism among tsars

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The government has announced an enquiry into anti-religious extremism among tsars (or should that be "czars"?) These are people wi...
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Tuesday, 10 January 2017

World leaders come to the aid of the Vatican

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Mahmoud Abbas of Palestine and Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel have led the world in offering a reassuring hand to the Vatican, as the storm-cl...
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Monday, 9 January 2017

Do students of Christianity need a trigger warning?

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The normally rather saved Professor Stephen Bullivant has written that students of Christianity need a trigger warning, because they may ...
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Saturday, 7 January 2017

Synod to decide what 2+2 is

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Following a violent disagreement in the Vatican about what exactly 2+2 adds up to, Pope Francis has decided to call an Extraordinary Synod t...
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