Category Archives: ratzinger

A crate for fruit

Posted on March 28, 2009 by Charles Lambert

Update: If anyone thinks this is a gratuitous slur on the Pontifex and his sexual preferences and doesn’t speak Italian, the slur is actually worse than they may have thought. The name of the wholesale fruit and veg dealers on … Continue reading →

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Ave fellow thugs

Posted on March 5, 2009 by Charles Lambert

The back in the middle of this picture belongs to someone called Don Giulio Tam. He defines himself as an ‘itinerant Jesuit’ but he’s actually one of the gang of break-away catholic traditionalists, headed by Lefebvre and recently re-admitted to … Continue reading →

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One picture…

Posted on February 18, 2009 by Charles Lambert
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Aiming at foot, hitting foot

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Charles Lambert

I’ve heard people say that the Westboro Baptist Church, by revealing the true face of fundamentalist homophobia, is the best thing to happen to the fight for gay equality in years. I suppose this is true in the same way … Continue reading →

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Hohum

Posted on December 29, 2008 by Charles Lambert
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Gaia

Posted on December 23, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Ratzinger’s festive message was unusually spirited this year. It’s good to know that old age and too many tennis lessons with the lovely Georg haven’t robbed the old trooper of his sense of humour. In a costume that Widow Twanky … Continue reading →

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Money

Posted on December 6, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Well, it’s good to be reminded once again who really runs Italy. When it emerged that the Treasury was planning to reduce the amount of funding provided by the Italian state to catholic schools, it took no more than a … Continue reading →

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Stop press: Luxuria wins IdF

Posted on November 24, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Well, it’s not Obama, but I’m happy to report that Italy’s most famous transgender politician-cum-actor-cum-a-host-of-other-things, Vladimir Luxuria, has just won the Italian version of I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here, known here as Isola dei Famosi (Island of … Continue reading →

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A froggie would a sacking go

Posted on October 29, 2008 by Charles Lambert

The curator of the exhibition in Bolzano that included this admittedly rather unlovely artwork, by Martin Kippenberger, has just had her contract withdrawn. Corinne Diserens, appointed director of the new Museion to give it a touch of international class and … Continue reading →

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Croatia. The Mediterranean as it once was?

Posted on October 10, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Thinking of going to Croatia on holiday? Read this piece by Diamond Walid and see if you fit into the rather narrow range of sexual and racial acceptability demanded by Croatian youths on the lookout for victims (you know, the kind … Continue reading →

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