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Truth, what is truth?
By far the most irritating part of a pending papal election is the increased coverage the Church receives in the editorial pages of the newspapers and on evening news programmes. Those who at all other...
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Ratzinger the Radical – Kueng the Conformist
At about 2pm on the day the Pope made his announcement, I switched on BBC news and was delighted to witness the following: ANCHORMAN: And we can now go over live to Munich, Benedict’s hometown (sic)...
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Where have all the polymaths gone?
This week it will be Nicolas Copernicus’s 600th birthday. Copernicus belongs to the club of superswots known as polymaths which, like many membership organizations nowadays, is struggling. The original...
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Some notes from the Archives
This is the first of an occasional series of extracts from the riches of our muniments. “After all these prophetic and evengelical and apostolic writings which we have set forth above, on which the...
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Your Guide to the (other) Roman Election
As the College of Cardinals prepares to gather in the Eternal City for their solemn deliberations and the Vatican press office hints at possible last minute changes to the laws governing Sede Vacante,...
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Recusant Reviews: BBC Question Time
One of the pleasures of watching Question Time is the consolatory confirmation that anyone who got into Oxford, met all the right people, got on in public life and ended up on the telly was almost...
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Advice to Cardinals,Bishops and Priests from Edmund Burke
Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make...
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Notes on the unpleasantness with Cardinal O’Brien
The are few things more dispiriting to members and friends than another round of allegations of impropriety against the clergy. Suffice to say that of course we all deplore those instances which have...
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Further Canonical Observations on Cardinal O’Brien
Cardinal O’Brien’s situation continues to develop and to raise more questions. News that his resignation, submitted late last year, has been accepted by Rome and that he will voluntarily remove himself...
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A Day of Reckoning in Rome
There are few words that ring more bitter, cold and hollow in the mother tongue of the Church than Sede Vacante. The Benedict formerly known as the Roman Pontiff has left the ecclesial stage. Having...
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Your Guide to the (other) Roman Election
As the College of Cardinals prepares to gather in the Eternal City for their solemn deliberations and the Vatican press office hints at possible last minute changes to the laws governing Sede Vacante,...
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Notes on the unpleasantness with Cardinal O’Brien
The are few things more dispiriting to members and friends than another round of allegations of impropriety against the clergy. Suffice to say that of course we all deplore those instances which have...
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Further Canonical Observations on Cardinal O’Brien
Cardinal O’Brien’s situation continues to develop and to raise more questions. News that his resignation, submitted late last year, has been accepted by Rome and that he will voluntarily remove himself...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Day of Reckoning in Rome
There are few words that ring more bitter, cold and hollow in the mother tongue of the Church than Sede Vacante. The Benedict formerly known as the Roman Pontiff has left the ecclesial stage. Having...
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