Thursday, 31 May 2018

Irish people plan a mass suicide pact

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Following the result of the referendum on abortion, and the decision by Irish politicians to press for euthanasia next ("anything to an...
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Monday, 28 May 2018

St Theresa of Downing Street

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Catholic priests are not normally allowed to marry (and this includes Bishop Toribio Ticona , whom Pope Francis has just put on his "Ra...
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Sunday, 27 May 2018

Pope cancels visit to Ireland

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Following the Irish referendum on abortion, in which the main message (apart from "We think killing babies is OK") was "We ha...
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Friday, 25 May 2018

The snakes return to Ireland

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Well, St Patrick did his best. For many years Ireland was a Catholic country, and not just the "you wouldn't notice" sort that...
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Tuesday, 22 May 2018

"Go to a gay orgy!" says Pope Francis

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In a surprise change to 2000 years of Church teaching, Pope Francis has declared that homosexuality is great, it's what God really prefe...
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Sunday, 20 May 2018

How to preach a Royal Wedding sermon

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Some day you may be invited to preach the sermon at a royal wedding, at which some lesser piece of royalty is joined in holy matrimony with ...
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Friday, 18 May 2018

Did the Pope say "Yanny" or "Laurel"?

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In the immortal words of the Daily Mail , the Internet was divided this week by a recording of Pope Francis finally answering the Dubia pose...
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Friday, 11 May 2018

Catholic Church opens new college for lying politicians

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Following the Government's decision to renege on its manifesto promise to lift the faith-based admissions cap on free schools , which h...
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Thursday, 10 May 2018

Ernst Stavro Blofeld SJ - hero or villain?

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A Damian Thompson special . Already Austen Ivereigh and Robert Mickens are rushing to Blofeld's defence, so it must be good. Ernst Sta...
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Tuesday, 8 May 2018

Met Gala's "Heavenly Bodies" offends the faithful

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An "art" exhibition in New York, backed by His Eminence Cardinal Timothy Dolan, and described as the epitome of non-religious Cat...
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Saturday, 5 May 2018

Cardinal Marx bans the cross

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On this, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx, the founder of, er, Marxism, one of his illustrious descendants, Cardinal Rein...
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Tuesday, 1 May 2018

Eccles explains it to the bishops

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All right, in you come. Nichols and McMahon at the front please, you've been getting very bad marks lately. Your auxiliaries next to y...
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Friday, 27 April 2018

The Gospel according to St Malcolm

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1. And they brought unto Jesus a sick baby, saying "Master, wilt thou heal this child, or at least take him to Rome, where he may be c...
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Wednesday, 25 April 2018

Career options in the modern world

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As regular readers of this blog will know, I am a particularly nasty piece of work. My way of relaxing in the evening is to pull the wings o...
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Friday, 20 April 2018

English bishops to be replaced by jelly-babies

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Following a report describing the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales as a "spineless bunch of jellies", Pope Fr...
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Sunday, 15 April 2018

The "Pope Francis is wonderful" conference

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After a rather grim week caused by news of Ealing, Alfie Evans, Syria, etc. it was a great pleasure to be invited to the "Pope Francis ...
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