Category Archives: ratzinger

Blood on Ratzinger’s hands

Posted on April 6, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Last Tuesday, a sixteen year old boy in Turin threw himself from the window of his fourth floor flat. We shouldn’t know his name, because Italian law is supposed to protect the identity of minors. But now that he’s dead, … Continue reading →

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It’s raining men

Posted on April 3, 2007 by Charles Lambert

King of Bling, Pope “Eggs” Benedict performs the old battle horse of the Weather Girls, It’s Raining Men, to the usual Wednesday afternoon punters.Bless.

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Vatican CEO with bitch

Posted on March 15, 2007 by Charles Lambert

This is what the Guardian had to say about the lovely Georg Gänswein shortly after “Eggs” Benedict came to power: Born on July 30 1956, Gänswein grew up in Riedern am Wald, a tiny Bavarian village. He was ordained in … Continue reading →

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Notes from WYD 2005

Posted on March 14, 2007 by Charles Lambert

I wrote this soon after returning from Cologne in the summer of 2005, but now seems an appropriate time to post it: Tram No 7 is one of four trams that cross the Rhein from Deutzer Freiheit to Heumarkt. We … Continue reading →

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Natural law for beginners (and pontiffs)

Posted on March 14, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Perhaps someone can explain to me exactly what the connection is between ‘natural law’ and a legal provision to enable someone to continue to live in his/her home after the death of his/her partner? Or to visit that partner in … Continue reading →

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Pontification

Posted on March 14, 2007 by Charles Lambert

A clique of sex-obsessed old men in the Vatican continues its offensive against civil union legislation (read DICO) by stigmatising the demonstration last Saturday in Piazza Farnese as carnivalesque, hysterical, a masquerade and so on. As one who was there, … Continue reading →

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DICO day: impressions

Posted on March 11, 2007 by Charles Lambert

The day after, there’s the usual war of numbers: 20,000 according to the police, 80,000 for the organisers; La Repubblica‘s settled on 50,000. Whoever may be right (and I’d go with La Repubblica), Piazza Farnese was jammed with adults, children, … Continue reading →

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Crisis? Just ask Giulio

Posted on February 22, 2007 by Charles Lambert

It was inevitable that sooner or later Romano Prodi’s government, with a majority of one in the Senate, would stumble and fall. And it isn’t surprising that two of the people responsible for yesterday’s defeat should represent fringe elements of … Continue reading →

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Old Mother Benedict

Posted on February 1, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Seen in a restaurant in Cologne, opposite the cathedral, during World Youth Day 2005. Would that Rome were Cologne!

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God’s ferret

Posted on January 23, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Cardinal Ruini was on the news last night. If Ratzinger is God’s Rotweiller, he must be God’s ferret, skinny and fast enough to get into the tightest of holes and root out heretics. It’s an ever-growing category, always one step … Continue reading →

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