WITH his floppy blond hair and the face of a 14-year-old, Ross MacFarlane is a far right-wing Conservative twit – a twit who’s now looking for a new job after he was caught on camera making anti-Catholic remarks and trying, with some difficulty, to set fire to an EU flag doused with vodka. MacFarlane was [...]
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MY first WTF? moment of the day occurred when I spotted this photograph in the New York Times: It’s a picture taken by Marta Ramoneda of 200 portable confessional booths set up in Madrid’s Retiro Park for Pope Ratzinger’s visit this week (he arrives tomorrow). And today, ahead of the tarted-up tyrant’s World Youth Day [...]
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JOSEPH Alois Ratzinger recalled with “fondness” his recent visit to the UK when he became the first Pope ever to get a slot on BBC’s Radio 4′s Thought for the Day this morning. The programme, which is often in the firing line for excluding sensible, secular thoughts, allowed Ratzinger to deliver a Christmas Eve message [...]
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IT SEEM that not a day goes by without Pope Ratzinger blundering into fresh controversy. Remember the statement plucked recently from the old fool’s book The Light of the World? That created the impression that he was giving the thumbs up to condom use for male prostitutes. But ever since, Vatican officials, according to this [...]
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A GROUP of circus acrobats called Fratelli Pellegrini (Pellegrini Brothers) yesterday gave Pope Ratzinger an eyeful of toned, rippling flesh during the pontiffs his weekly general audience (see video below). [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rbxov7CVi8[/youtube] After removing their shirts, the hunks formed a human tower of for Ratzi and a group of Vatican officials. According to this report, at [...]
A FLURRY of reports at the weekend suggest that a welcome chink may have opened up in the Vatican’s armoury of opposition to condoms, but these have been quashed by the Vatican’s chief spokesman. The Rev Federico Lombardi said in a statement yesterday that the Pope is neither “reforming or changing” the Church’s teaching, which [...]
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