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Tag Archives: Vatican
A Slip?
Over at the Guardian, Nick Cohen highlights an intriguing detail in Pope Francis’s “who am I to judge” remark about homosexuals: Journalists wanted to know whether a “gay lobby” in the Vatican had covered up Ricca’s alleged sins. “If a … Continue reading
A Pope for the Descamisados?
Over at the National Catholic Reporter, John Allen exults over the undeniable success of the early months in office of the genial, (sort of Peronist) prelate now known as Pope Francis. Some of the rejoicing is over the top—given the … Continue reading
Posted in politics
Tagged Argentina, Peronism, Pope Francis, Religious Left, Roman Catholicism, Vatican
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Innocent Guilty
Yes, yes, there’s a back-story, and, yes, yes, a later version of the document did get the papal nod, but this snippet of history is too entertaining not to repeat. The Financial Times reports: It was, as these things go, … Continue reading
Posted in Church & State, history
Tagged Innocent III, Magna Carta, Vatican
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Luke 6: 42
The Guardian (2008): The Roman Catholic Church is calling for the effective closure of secretive tax havens as a ‘necessary first step’ to restore the global economy to health. In a policy paper from the Holy See, Pope Benedict pins … Continue reading
The Cheerleader
On the whole, patriotic priests are preferable to those preaching the old baloney about the universal brotherhood of man, an impossible, unnatural aspiration that, by definition, can only (if it is to mean anything) be coercive. It is however better … Continue reading
Posted in history, politics, Religion
Tagged Argentina, Falkland Islands, Pope Francis, UK, Vatican
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Fascist Loot!
Just a week or so after the latest Papal attack on the iniquities of greed, international finance and all the rest of it, the Guardian obliges with an entertaining piece of history: Behind a disguised offshore company structure, the church’s … Continue reading
Same Old, Same Old
It’s no great secret that the Vatican has never been particularly fond of the idea of free markets, but here is yet more nonsense from Benedict XVI to remind us of just that. The BBC reports on the Pope’s New … Continue reading
Posted in economics, politics, Religion
Tagged Benedict XVI, Religious Left, Roman Catholicism, Vatican
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Social Justice and All That
The Pope, writing in the Financial Times today: Christians work for more equitable sharing of the earth’s resources out of a belief that, as stewards of God’s creation, we have a duty to care for the weakest and most vulnerable. … Continue reading
Leftists Attack “Speculators”
Via The Independent: The G20 was under growing pressure to call an emergency summit on global food prices last night as the Vatican accused grain speculators of “hampering the poorest and neediest… Yesterday the Vatican’s permanent observer at the UN … Continue reading
Vatican Math
Via El Pais: The Spanish Catholic Church is also concerned about homosexuality. During his Boxing Day sermon, the Bishop of Córdoba, Demetrio Fernández, said there was a conspiracy by the United Nations. “The Minister for Family of the Papal Government, … Continue reading