Monday, 29 July 2024

Vatican welcomes Olympics opening ceremony

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Last week's Olympics opening ceremony has been greeted warmly by Vatican staff and their friends. For any readers who were on another pl...
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Sunday, 7 July 2024

Quick World Cup of Latin Mass Letter Writers

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As is probably well known to most readers, 48 fairly famous people, mostly from the world of writing, music and politics, signed a letter to...
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Saturday, 6 July 2024

The Book of Numbskulls 2 - after the fall of Bosis

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After some delay, continued from Chapter 1 . 1. Following the fall of Bosis, it was decided that the children of Bri-tain would be led by ...
Wednesday, 3 July 2024

A letter about the Latin Mass

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The scene: Pope Francis is relaxing in a deck chair, idly thinking up new punishments that he can inflict upon Cardinal Burke. In rushes (we...
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Tuesday, 2 July 2024

Zen and the art of Michael Lofton maintenance

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The story so far: You are a middle-aged man with a big head and a small beard, running a popular and lucrative website that some days has m...
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Sunday, 30 June 2024

The Pope needs some common cents!

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Today we are celebrating the solemnity of St Peter and St Paul, and so this is also the time when the Pope gets out his begging bowl and ask...
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Friday, 21 June 2024

How to conduct a trial for schism

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This is another in our long-running series on "How to be a good Pope", which is read regularly by Pope Francis and his likely succ...
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Wednesday, 19 June 2024

Pope Francis decides to reform all masses

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Pope Francis the Peacemaker has finally found a compromise between all the different factions in the Catholic Church (including those who ...
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Sunday, 16 June 2024

The Synod of Comics and the Synod of Despots

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As a by-product of the Synod on Synodal Synodality, Pope Francis is enjoying synods so much that he decided to hold two more. Getting r...
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Sunday, 2 June 2024

It's Sloth Pride!

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Brother Eccles couldn't be bothered to write this post himself, so we arranged for someone else to put it together. We are lazy, and w...
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Wednesday, 29 May 2024

Paul the Apostle accused of using offensive words

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Corinth, 56 A.D. Senior Catholic Paul the Apostle (formerly Saul of Tarsus) has stunned the Roman church today by using derogatory langua...
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Monday, 27 May 2024

The eight greatest Catholic leaders

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I'm using this post to record the results of the final rounds of the World Cup of Great Catholic leaders . Many well-known "leader...
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Sunday, 19 May 2024

Pentecost Special

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Some of this is true, some of it exaggerated. Decide for yourselves which is which. To Mass on Pentecost Sunday. We were told in advance t...
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