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Atheist clubs are springing up in American high schools, warns head of US Catholic bishops

Reposted from: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100012851/atheist-clubs-are-springing-up-in-american-high-schools-warns-head-of-us-catholic-bishops/ A “triumphalistic, self-righteous atheism” inspired by the work of Richard Dawkins and ...

From DAMIAN THOMPSON, RichardDawkins.net,  7 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Richard Dawkins,  Sam Harris,  John Allen,  U.S. Republican Party

Benedict 'annoyed' at bishops' boycott

I don't like passing on rumours, as you know, but there are reports that Pope Benedict XVI is annoyed by the absence of a single bishop at the big Mass celebrated by Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos at Westminster Cathedral on Saturday. Westminster ...

From DAMIAN THOMPSON, The Telegraph,  19 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Pope Benedict XVI

Traditional Latin Mass for 'all the parishes'

Yesterday Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, President of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, announced in London that Pope Benedict wishes to introduce the "Gregorian Rite" – meaning the former Tridentine Rite – to every parish in the Western Church. ...

From DAMIAN THOMPSON, The Telegraph,  15 Jun 2008

Latin Mass marries beauty and truth

Last night I attended what may have been the most beautiful religious service of my life. Fr Julian Large (a former Telegraph journalist) celebrated the traditional Mass in the Little Oratory to mark the publication of Alessandra Borghese’s book In the ...

From DAMIAN THOMPSON, The Telegraph,  12 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Joseph Ratzinger

Catholic Cub Scouts must take the oath

Catholic Scouts shouldn't be exempt from the promise Good. Someone should explain to Matthew McVeigh of Renfrewshire that religion has nothing to do with the pledge of allegiance to the Queen: Catholic scouts, like all other British scouts, take this ...

From DAMIAN THOMPSON, The Telegraph,  12 Jun 2008

Britain’s ‘Virtual Caliphate’ takes shape

Extremist Muslims are making ingenious use of the internet to create a “virtual caliphate” in Britain, according to a scary report by a former Al-Jazeera journalist published today. Extremists' websites are used for recruiting young Muslims The report ...

From DAMIAN THOMPSON, The Telegraph,  11 Jun 2008
Related Topics: James Brandon

Where has Barack Obama's 'Catholic' adviser gone?

What has happened to the “Catholic National Advisory Council” appointed by Barack Obama to help him win Catholic votes? It seems to have disappeared, following complaints that its ultra-liberal membership included pro-abortion campaigners. The National ...

From DAMIAN THOMPSON, The Telegraph,  10 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Kathleen Sebelius

Sabotage on the Latin Mass petition

Someone out there is trying very hard to sabotage the petition to the Catholic bishops of England and Wales asking them to encourage more traditional Latin Masses on Sundays.  Latin Mass: the subject of spiteful scorn from Sandalistas The online ...

From DAMIAN THOMPSON, The Telegraph,  9 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Starbucks Corp

A petition for the traditional Mass

A Holy Smoke reader has started a petition asking the Bishops of England and Wales to provide more Sunday Masses in the Extraordinary Form – there are scandalously few at the moment, despite the Pope’s wish to popularise traditional Latin worship. Such ...

From DAMIAN THOMPSON, The Telegraph,  6 Jun 2008

Speaking ill of the dead

Less than week after the religious commentator Chris Morgan took his own life, his virulent critic Andrew Brown has published an appalling article in the Church Times describing him as “someone who [would] sell out old friends for a story”. He also ...

From DAMIAN THOMPSON, The Telegraph,  6 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Chris Morgan,  Andrew Brown

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