Category Archives: church

Red bull? Papal bull? Plain bull…

Posted on December 15, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Thanks to the efforts of one humourless Sicilian priest (Father Marco Damanti, if you care), who’s played the blasphemy card and scared Red Bull into compliance, you’ll no longer be able to see this harmless advertisement on Italian television. Never … Continue reading →

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Ciao Darwin, Addio Alberto

Posted on November 20, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Just when you thought the catholic church and I had agreed,amicably, to differ and go our separate ways, news arrives of a local priest, Don Paolino (Little Paul), who has expelled one of his choristers from the choir and excluded … Continue reading →

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Good riddance to…

Posted on November 2, 2007 by Charles Lambert

…Don Oreste Benzi, the smarmy sanctimonious little twat priest who took it upon himself to conduct funeral services for foetuses, said that scantily-dressed women had only themselves to blame if they were raped, pestered sex workers with his medieval twaddle … Continue reading →

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Pontifical knickers twisted

Posted on October 4, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Editorialist for La Repubblica and one of Italy’s sharpest journalists, Curzio Maltese, has been looking at the way Italian taxpayers contribute, largely without their direct consent, to the Vatican’s bulging coffers. The money collected by the catholic church each year … Continue reading →

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Going, going, gone….

Posted on July 8, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Encouraging news today, as Eggs Benedict goes all Latin. No, we’re not talking Ricky Martin (Calm down, Eggs!), but the opportunity given the faithful to return to the Latin mass, thrown out at the modernising Second Vatican Council. Now Eggs … Continue reading →

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Yo! Benedict!

Posted on June 23, 2007 by Charles Lambert

The Vatican hierarchy is notorious for being morally supine in the face of wealth and power. It buried Pinochet with honours and encouraged the Albanian pain fetishist, Mother Teresa, in her quest for photo opportunities with the likes of tin-pot … Continue reading →

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Blood and sperm

Posted on June 19, 2007 by Charles Lambert

An exhibition in the once-red city of Bologna has been closed after complaints of abominable blasphemy from the catholic church. The offending collective was named La Madonna Piange Sperma (The Madonna Weeps Sperm). This would be unremarkable if the reference … Continue reading →

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Your bodies, their bigotry

Posted on June 14, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Amnesty International’s recent advocacy of abortion in the case of rape, incest or risk to the woman’s health has inevitably got up some clerical noses. One of the largest belongs to cardinal Martino, president of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for … Continue reading →

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Suffer the little children…

Posted on May 27, 2007 by Charles Lambert

A parish priest in Pescara, Don Lino Cisotto, has refused first communion to a nine-year-old autistic child on the grounds that he’s incapable of understanding the full significance of the Eucharist. I would have taken this as a sign of … Continue reading →

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Blair leapfrogs new boss

Posted on May 18, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Alexander Chancellor, in today’s Guardian tells an amusing tale about Tony Blair being reprimanded by Cardinal Hume for taking part in mass at his wife’s church. Hume pointed out that Blair, as an Anglican, had no right to his sanctimonious … Continue reading →

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