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Tolerant Students Won’t Tolerate Pope

Students at Rome’s main La Sapienza University plan to disrupt Pope Benedict XVI’s planned visit to their campus later this week with blasts of loud rock music. The group of left-wing physics students on Monday launched an ‘Anti-Clerical Week’ of… Continue Reading →

When the Electric Guitar Sounds During Mass, The Cherubim Weep

An excellent article by Michael Knox Beran appears this week on National Review concering Pope Benedict’s “Old Fogeyism” for liturgical music. This is my favorite line: “But if good music does not always save the soul, bad music never does.”… Continue Reading →

Kasper the Unfriendly?

It is being reported by the Catholic Herald that Cardinal Kasper has expressed his personal ambivalence toward a potential reunification with those Anglicans part of the Traditional Anglican Communion. When asked whether he felt encouraged by the TAC’s request, the… Continue Reading →

Synods: Not What They Hoped To Be

In the latest edition of America Magazine, the Rev. Kevin E. McKenna writes of the unfulfilled hopes that friends of the Spirit of Vatican II had for the synods of bishops. Since the Second Vatican Council, synods have borne the… Continue Reading →

Iran’s Secret Weapon: The Pope

Time Magazine is claiming that Iran will attempt to pull in Pope Benedict as a mediator between the terrorist regime and the United States of America in an effort to stave off war and buy time to continue their progress… Continue Reading →

Headline Prognostication

Ok, it is official. The Pope will be visiting the States in April. As a public service offered to the Ordinary Minister of the Media, I am compiling all the likely headlines they are likely to print. This is intended… Continue Reading →

American Cities Angry At Pope

It’s amazing. Major metropolitan newspapers are going negative on the Pope because he’s not coming to their fair cities. All of a sudden they all want the Pope in their cities. But they have a funny way of showing it…. Continue Reading →

Sinead: Nobody Loves Pope Benedict :(

You remember Sinead O Connor, right? The loopy Irish songstress who ripped up a photo of Pope John Paul II. It was a moment that would ignite a global firestorm and brand her an industry and religious pariah, but 15… Continue Reading →

Popie Dearest Freaks Me Out

A new authorised biography of the Holy Father, aimed at younger readers, was published recently. Written by Chico, a ginger tomcat, the book recounts his memories of the young Joseph Ratzinger, growing up in a Bavarian family in Nazi Germany…. Continue Reading →

Benedict At Gettysburg.

The National Post of Canada has a real gem (read hit piece) of an article on Pope Benedict XVI. I had planned to take issue with this article but something else became evident to me as I read it. When… Continue Reading →

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