Sunday, 30 September 2018

Pope Francis makes an infallible joke

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Theologians, canon lawyers, professors, journalists, Jesuits, and Catholics worldwide are currently trying to get to grips with Pope Francis...
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Thursday, 27 September 2018

The Spreadsheet from Hell

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The World Cup of Bad Hymns has started, and here are the groupings for the first round. Apologies if your favourite bad hymn isn't ther...
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Friday, 21 September 2018

The Dictator Apostle

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Jerusalem, A.D. 33. Ecclesiam reports. I've just been reading "The Dictator Apostle" by Marcus Antonius, alias the historian...
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Friday, 14 September 2018

The World Cup of Bad Hymns - nominations requested

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As a distraction from all the other problems in the world, we have something a little different. On Monday 24th September the 2018 World Cu...
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Wednesday, 12 September 2018

Serener Francis in racism and sexism row

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Critics of the superstar sportsman, His Serene Highness Pope Francis the First and Last, have been accused of racism and sexism, after they ...
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Sunday, 9 September 2018

Spadaro wins prestigious satire prize

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Fr Antonio Spadaro SJ has been awarded the prestigious Vatican II Prize for Catholic Satire, named after the congress that spawned more paro...
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Sunday, 2 September 2018

How to brush off a papal scandal

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This is the latest instalment in our long-running series "How to be a good pope", intended especially for those of our readers who...
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Monday, 27 August 2018

The World Meeting of Comedians is a great success

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H. E. Cardinal Blase Cupich, Bishop Peter Doyle, H.E. Cardinal Kevin Farrell, H.E. Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriquez Maradiaga, Fr James Marti...
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Monday, 20 August 2018

The Pope's letter to the People of God

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Most people will be unaware of this - I only found out today when Spadaro accidentally let the cat out of the bag - but there have been one ...
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Tuesday, 14 August 2018

Marcantonio Colonna revealed to be Fr Thomas Rosica

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When The Dictator Pope first came out, it was said to be authored by Marcantonio Colonna: it was not until several months later that someon...
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Saturday, 11 August 2018

Fr Rosica interviews Cardinal Wuerl

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We have watched it, so you don't have to. Shifty-looking man (possibly Bill Clinton, possibly Cardinal Wuerl ): Thank you, Fr Rosica, ...
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Thursday, 9 August 2018

Why can't Christians be more like Muslims?

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Christian leaders have united in a joint effort to make Christianity a protected religion like Islam, marathon-running, cycling, and homosex...
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Thursday, 2 August 2018

How to change the Catholic Catechism

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This is another instalment in our long-running series " How to be a good Pope ", targeted towards those of our readers who are loo...
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Tuesday, 31 July 2018

God admits "I knew what McCarrick was up to"

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We have seen a succession of implausible denials from Cardinals Wuerl, Farrell, Cupich, etc. that they knew that (ex-)Cardinal "Uncle...
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Sunday, 29 July 2018

"Eat up your greens!" says Pope Francis

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Pope Francis has given us the definitive - indeed Magisterial - message of today's Gospel about the feeding of the 5000. OUT go all refe...
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Friday, 27 July 2018

English bishops to relax the dress code

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In view of the extreme temperatures in London - "nearly as high as the last time it was this hot" - the Catholic Bishops of Englan...
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Wednesday, 25 July 2018

"I've never even heard of McCarrick" says Cardinal Farrell

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Today, in a new statement to journalist Cindy Wooden ("Wooden by name, wooden by nature"), Cardinal Kevin Farrell announced, ...
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