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Leo XIV and Rerum Novarum

11th June 2025 Going Postal 2652 Comments

Upon his elevation, the new pope announced that he had assumed the name of Leo XIV.  For those familiar with Leo XIII, this was a signal that the principles of Leo XIII as expressed in [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Eighty-One

18th May 2025 Going Postal 2063 Comments

Monday Good morning, happy readers, from a sunny but chilly early morning London, where I am happy to see Liebore has learnt nothing from last week’s election, and its representatives on the Sunday morning political [more…]

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Larry’s diary, Week Two Hundred And Seventy Nine

4th May 2025 Going Postal 2444 Comments

Monday Good morning on this Bank Holiday Monday. It is nice and quiet here in Number Ten with only a small crew on. The girl who was on feeding duty this morning was not very [more…]

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An Appreciation Of The Papacy of Francis I

3rd May 2025 Always Worth Saying 2277 Comments

Might every age get the Pope it deserves? If so, then what of the Age of Francis I? Jorge Mario Bergoglio, once Archbishop of Buenos Aires and the latest Bishop of Rome, died on Easter [more…]

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Miguel de Cervantes

19th September 2023 Going Postal 1972 Comments

Miguel de Cervantes was born in Alcala de Henares on the 29th September 1547, the second son of Rodrigo de Cervantes and Leonor de Cortinas. His father led a precarious and unsettled life as an [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, Lourdes

17th September 2022 Always Worth Saying 2609 Comments

Unlike my father, grandparents and daughter, I’ve never been to Lourdes. Given the proliferation of places of worship that have sprung up around the Pyrenean town since the visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to [more…]

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When Popes Took Coke

19th November 2019 Tachybaptus 1854 Comments

The rise and fall of coca wine Coca leaves have been used as a stimulant in South America for over a thousand years, especially in the Andes to overcome the fatigue of living and working [more…]

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Martin Luther and Brexit: Game Changers

11th December 2018 Jonathon Davies 2480 Comments

We all know that Henry VIII famously broke with the Pope in Rome to seek a marriage with Anne Boleyn. But another important question is how was he able to do this? More specifically, would [more…]

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