Posts Tagged ‘the Church’

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

Can the Church be saved?

Friday, September 21st, 2012

In a recent book of the same title, Can the Church Be Saved? (2012), this question was posed by Swiss-German Hans Küng, one of the best known and prolific theologians in the Catholic fold. Along with his colleague from the University of Tübingen, Joseph Ratzinger, he enthusiastically advocated for a renewal of the Church. Küng Read more