Monday, 27 March 2023

AI-generated image of Pope Francis goes viral

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The Internet went wild today (this is standard journalist-speak for a "a few people we know sent it to us along with some naughty pi...
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Tuesday, 14 March 2023

2013 and all that (part 2)

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Continued from Part 1 . The story so far: Pope Francis the humble has been in the chair of St Peter for two years, and he is just gettin...
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Friday, 3 March 2023

A guest post from ChatGPT

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There's not much point in our blogging any more, is there? From what follows, it seems that artificial intelligence has won. We got Chat...
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Sunday, 12 February 2023

Design your own God!

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As a service to my friend "Archbishop" Justin Welby (He/Him on the one hand, She/Her on the other hand, and also Bleep/Bloop in a ...
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Monday, 23 January 2023

World cup of uncrowned saints - nominations please

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As a distraction from all the bad news that's coming out at present, let's have another World Cup - this time one of people who shou...
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Sunday, 15 January 2023

Synod and Synodality, by Jane Austen Ivereigh

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good job in Rome, must be in want of a synod. You thought I ...
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Saturday, 7 January 2023

How to conduct a papal funeral

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Today we have another instalment in our long-running series "How to be a good pope", providing useful advice to those readers (Hi...
Sunday, 1 January 2023

Tributes to Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI

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As the Catholic world (and many others) mourns the death of the Emeritus Pope, we found a variety of alternative tributes. Kevin McGhoul of...
Friday, 30 December 2022

The Book of Numbskulls 1 - the fall of Bosis

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Continued from here. 1. In my earlier writings, O Theophilus, namely the books of Brexodus and Covidicus, I told the story of how Bosis ...
Sunday, 25 December 2022

The 2022 Catholic Advent Calendar

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In the end, this is what I saw after opening all the little windows. For the record, this is what was revealed: 1. We start off in part...
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An unreligious baggage writes about Christmas

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A guest post from Apollyon Toynbee of the Guardian. Christmas comes with good cheer. The tragedy is the religious baggage. I love Christ...
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Tuesday, 20 December 2022

2024

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With apologies to George Orwell. Winston Smith's route to Mass took him past the People's Aborturama. Here, citizens were encoura...
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Monday, 19 December 2022

How to get rid of a turbulent priest

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Probably several of my readers will one day become pope (Hi, Blase! Hi, Arthur! Hi, Tina! ) and will need me to advise them on how to behave...
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Sunday, 18 December 2022

What the Prodigal Son did next

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A sequel to the earlier parable . 1. So the prodigal son, Harry, with the prodigal daughter-in-law, the sorceress Meg-han le Fay, parted f...
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Sunday, 4 December 2022

Magi "traumatized" after being asked where they came from

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Bethlehem, 4 B.C. approx. The three Magi, Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar (real names: Chas Parr, Mel Keir, and Bill Tazzer), have declare...
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Thursday, 1 December 2022

The next conclave

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Cardinal Farrell (camerlengo): By popular demand, I am stepping down from the organization of this conclave, and our brother Cardinal Eccle...
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Sunday, 27 November 2022

Francis "shocked" to discover that China is ruled by baddies

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The Vatican-China deal (arranged by that wily oriental Pa-Ro Lin) is now in tatters, after the Chinese went ahead and appointed two new card...
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Friday, 25 November 2022

Comedy award for Martin and Ive

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The popular comedy duo, Martin and Ive, has just swept the board in the prestigious Francis Awards, defeating Cardinal Becciu's solo ro...
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