I learned at school that Galileo was persecuted because he said the earth moved round the sun. Apparently, this is wrong . In 1632 the Jesuits condemned atomism as proposed by Epicurus, Lucretius and the ancient Greeks, as being incompatible with the second canon of the 13th session of the Council of Trent (I just …
In 1139 St. Malachy went from Ireland to Rome to give an account of the affairs of his diocese to the pope, Innocent II. While at Rome, he received a vision of the future that involved a long list of pontiffs who were to rule the Church “until the end of time”. Malachy is supposed …
The Catholic church asks us to submit to the powers that be in return for the life of the world to come. Isn’t that convenient? Everywhere you look and over many centuries, with some honorable exceptions, the Church has been on the side of the Establishment. It has shrugged when horrendous acts have been perpetrated …
Both Machiavelli and Thomas More concluded that you couldn’t have a just society unless there was a large element of fear, specifically the fear of Judgement Day and the after-life. I would give a lot to be able to interview (Saint) Thomas More (who himself single-handedly did sterling work instilling fear into the subjects of …
According to James Haught, editor of the Charleston Gazette, George Bush phoned French President Jacques Chirac in 2003 and, appealing to their “common faith’, asked for his support in invading Iraq to thwart Gog and Magog, the satanic agents of the Apolcalypse (he didn’t get it – rightly). Gog and Magog are at working the Middle …
