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Old Bill in pursuit of Old Nick

Saturday, December 29, 2007

First, a reality check. We are in the twenty-first century, aren’t we? This isn’t some kind of dream, is it? An alternative universe?
Just checking. Because, you see, there’s this chap in Italy – well, some “state” called the Vatican or Holy See or something where strange people live, but it’s in Rome, which is in [...]

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Signs and wonders in Surbiton

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

The words pot and kettle come to mind as a woman who claims the Virgin Mary has appeared in a pine tree at her home has been dismissed as a fraud.
By the Catholic Church.
Yes.
The Catholic Church.
You couldn’t make it up.
This apparition has been appearing for about 20 years at 67-year-old Patricia De Menezes’s home in [...]

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Death of the Pope’s Pet Gorilla

Monday, April 3, 2006

BARBARA SMOKER digs up an old Vatican Gangster
ARCHBISHOP Paul Casimir Marcinkus died on February 20 in Sun City, near Phoenix, Arizona. You don’t remember him? During his 18 years as president of the Vatican bank, Instituto per le Opere di Religione (Institute of Religious Works, or IOR), which manages the financial investments of the Vatican, [...]

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