Posts Tagged ‘Opinion’

Check your perspective before you check the facts

Thursday, May 11th, 2017

To be Catholic in a post-Christian age is to suffer many misconceptions. One example is the idea of papal infallibility. Many assume the doctrine requires Catholics to hold that the Pope makes no mistakes. But the actual terms of papal infallibility is narrowly defined. So much so that it hardly ever applies. In fact, there Read more

Heard the one about the priest?

Friday, September 21st, 2012

Spike Milligan is a Catholic hero of mine. In his will, he asked that he be buried in the chuch cemetery in the village in Ireland where his parents came from. On the tombstone he asked that the inscription read: “I told you I was ill.” Just to complete the comic routine, the next joke Read more