Tuesday, 31 March 2020

Lockdown Diary, Day 7313

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March 31st 2040. Well, here we are after 20 years of lockdown caused by the Coronavirus, which keeps mutating every so often into somethin...
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Monday, 30 March 2020

Eccles is excommunicated

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As a faithful worshipper at the Church of Twitter (founder: Pope Jack), I take part in its services several times a day, offering the sign o...
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Saturday, 28 March 2020

Bishops say "Stop praying!"

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Several wise bishops have decided to allow the faithful to eat meat on Fridays in Lent , because apparently it is such a hardship in these p...
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Wednesday, 25 March 2020

Mother Nature throws a tantrum

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Some readers may have heard of a nasty virus that is going the rounds at present, and wondered why this has been sent to us. Is it a punishm...
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Saturday, 21 March 2020

Covidicus 1 - There cometh a plague

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Continued from the Book of Brexodus . 1. So Bosis and the children of Bri-tain camped in the desert just outside EU-gypt. The children o...
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Thursday, 19 March 2020

Why Eccles will tell no more jokes

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Eccles's new law states that it is impossible to tell any joke without someone being offended. Take for example the Tommy Cooper joke: ...
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Wednesday, 11 March 2020

How to cancel the Sign of Peace

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There is a fine video going the rounds of a deacon saying "Let's offer each other a sign of peace" (presumably at the standard...
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Sunday, 8 March 2020

Catholic Herald to merge with Hello!

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Following the departure of the Catholic Herald 's UK editor, Luke Coppen, to pastures new, and the collapse of the magazine's US...
Friday, 6 March 2020

How to be a hermit

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In these days of plague, many people are being recommended to become hermits (the term is "self-isolation"). These include anyone ...
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Tuesday, 3 March 2020

Joe Biden gets top Vatican job

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Joe Biden, the CATHOLIC contender for the Presidency of the United States, has been honoured by Pope Francis for the clarity of his theolog...
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Sunday, 1 March 2020

How to have a good Mass in Time of Plague

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Whether or not he is one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Plague, in the form of the Coronavirus, is making a severe nuisance of Hi...
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Wednesday, 26 February 2020

What are you giving up for Lent?

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As seen in the Catholic Herald. We asked some friends of this blog to tell us what they were giving up for Lent this year. Prof. Massimo...
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Saturday, 22 February 2020

Pope Francis slaps down Fr James Martin LGBTSJ

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No, he probably didn't. Conservative and liberal Catholics united today to explain that reports that Pope Francis SJ had criticised his...
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Sunday, 16 February 2020

The Book of St Richard, Chapter 27

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Continued from Chapter 26 . 1. So Richard continued to grow in years, if not in wisdom. 2. And he spake out, saying, "Let us conside...
Wednesday, 12 February 2020

Corrida Amazonia - papal bullfight disappoints the fans

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In a breach with (post 2013) tradition, the new papal bullfight, Corrida Amazonia, contains nothing obviously identifiable as heresy, no amb...
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