A good theologian joke

A barzelletta from Giulio Meotti's essay that appeared in yesterday's Wall Street Journal, noted at Papa Ratzinger Blog.  There's a joke going around the Vatican.  The progressive Swiss theologian Hans Kung reaches Paradise and discusses his theories with St...

"The book most beloved of its author"

Dr Magister on Benedict XVI's Gesù di Nazaret: the context and a synopsis of the chapters.

A Dark Age on the one hand, a Dark Age on the other

The current issue of the Catholic Herald (the U.K.'s 'other' Catholic newspaper, whose editor-in-chief is the estimable--in spite of his unwarranted aversion to Opus Dei--Damian Thompson) features an essay by George Weigel, the acclaimed biographer of the Servant of God Pope...

Pope Embraces Orthodox Church

"In his quoting of14th-century Byzantine emperor, Manuel II Palaeologus the Pope is not quoting a Latin/Catholic Church father but rather a member of the old church, the Byzantine Orthodox Church. The Church of Russia rather than the Catholic Church of Rome or the church of...

Papa Devil

"Before Mad Magazine had its fold up back page there were heretical fold ups of the Pope.....Call them the popular comics of the Reformation,"

When Is Sorry Not Sorry

"When you don't apologise for what you said but for the reacton to what you said. Pope 'deeply sorry' at backlash on comments And we are still waiting for him to apologize for his attacks on secular, humanist, pluralistic, democratic society. "

Hey I Am Sorry

" "The Holy Father thus sincerely regrets that certain passages of his address could have sounded offensive to the sensitivities of the Muslim faithful," Bertone said.Still waiting for him to apologise to the rest of us who are humanist, secular, pluralist, free...

Secular Society Demands Pope Apologize

"The Pope is getting flack, rightly so, from Muslims. But hey his comments on Islam came after another attack on liberal pluralistic democratic secular society. A society that allows him the right to speak."

Pope Benedict Deus Cannus Est

Can a Grand Inquisitor, the Dog of God, really change his spots? No it's all just appearances.From Rottweiler to Great Lover

Pope avoids condom issue in AIDS message (Reuters)

Reuters - Pope Benedict said on Wednesday he felt close to victims of AIDS and encouraged efforts to find a cure for the killer disease but avoided the thorny issue of the Roman Catholic Church's ban on condoms.