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If you’re reading this you are The Resistance. I’m planning a late night coup. Are you in? The object: To take over the press office at The Vatican. We move under cover of darkness, we tie up anyone even remotely… Continue Reading →
We can argue about whether The Vatican newspaper was right or wrong when, according to CNS, it said that President Barack Obama’s first 100 days in office have not confirmed the Catholic Church’s worst fears about radical policy changes in… Continue Reading →
I love the Catholic Church. But the Vatican stinks at handling press. I mean stinks. Take the recent issue with the SSPX. Pope Benedict XVI revoked the excommunication of four of the bishops of the SSPX and suddenly a media… Continue Reading →
What’s a radical liberal to do? To a rational person, holding two ideologies which are in conflict is rather difficult but today’s environmentalists easily juggle mutually exclusive ideals like veteran circus performers. The Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano published a report… Continue Reading →
Fresh on the heels of its embarrassingly outdated pronouncement by the Vatican newspaper that it has finally forgiven John Lennon for declaring the Beatles were more famous than Jesus Christ, the Vatican also has a list of inane incidents that… Continue Reading →
Newsmax.com deserves a moment of praise, not for reporting that a Vatican official praised Sarah Palin, but because they referred to the source as a “Vatican official” and not “The Vatican” as reporters are wont to do. I don’t know… Continue Reading →
Cardinal Ivan Dias, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, who is the most senior Catholic delegate invited to the Lambeth Conference, has diagnosed many Christian communities with “spiritual Alzheimer’s” and “ecclesial Parkinson’s.” Whoa! A cardinal telling it… Continue Reading →
Vatican: It’s OK to Believe in Aliens. That’s the headline. Believing that the universe may contain alien life does not contradict a faith in God, the Vatican’s chief astronomer said in an interview published in the Associated Press. The Rev…. Continue Reading →
The Vatican said on Thursday it had discovered a lost drawing by Renaissance master Michelangelo of a design for the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica. Holy Cow folks. Misfile some bills? Ok. Misplace some indulgences? Sure. Misfile a Michelangelo? Come… Continue Reading →
The Vatican may have to add something to the Ten Commandments for Drivers because I’m pretty sure this incident in Wisconsin was not covered.