Category Archives: vatican

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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What’s civil about this?

Posted on January 31, 2007 by Charles Lambert

The government is still arguing about exactly what to do with all these people who just don’t want to get married and breed. And not only the government. The Italian president, ex-communist Giorgio Napolitano, threw in his tuppenny-hapenny worth a … Continue reading →

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Thinking about Cologne

Posted on January 26, 2007 by Charles Lambert

… made me think about an exhibition at the Ludwig Museum, entitled DC: Naked Drawings, a large white room full of drawings done directly on the walls by a Romanian artist called Dan Perjovschi. It was a great show, graffiti … Continue reading →

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Three things wrong…

Posted on January 25, 2007 by Charles Lambert

The art critic Federico Zeri claimed there were three things wrong with Italy: the Mafia, the Vatican and the University. I don’t have any personal experience of the first (though I know someone who did, and I’ll get to his … Continue reading →

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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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