Month: Jun 2021

Dr Anna Rowlands, St Hilda Associate Professor of Catholic Social Thought and Practice, Durham University

The hope witnessed with the fall of the Berlin Wall, contrasts sharply with today, with the Invisible Magic Friend’s Holy Virus, climate change and everything just generally being rubbish.

This is where the Catholic Church comes in. We’re experts in dealing with reality.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Wxsk69dJAguoBN8zQyByBMGux1j_Ib5S/view?usp=sharing

Tim Stanley, blogger, journalist, historian and Catholic

And in the Big News today from a Faith Perspective, Saint Thomas Becket, patron saint of testicle restorers.

An exhibition of Becket’s remaining bits is especially important to we Catholics. They are not just of historical importance, they have religious significance too. This is a universal human trait. We all like to keep mummified bits of our dead relatives that we can kiss, fondle and worship.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MKZ0RhUaDzokwBIuBXoG5ZfinJnHfG7R/view?usp=sharing

Dr Chetna Kang, Psychiatrist and Hindu Priest in the Bhakti Yoga/Vaisnava tradition

Krishna says you can’t enjoy your holidays properly without worshipping some sort of Invisible Magic Friend. Atheists can never really have proper holidays. For us believers, not flying off to some exotic location several times a year is no problem. We just do a quick bit of worshipping at home. Simples!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kWTJdqMWgN0hlpGm9Su9vXw9f-AqyocT/view?usp=sharing

Scintillatingly Rev and non-female Philip North, Bishop of Burnley and not Bishop of Sheffield

And in the Big News today from a Faith Perspective, some art thing.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-57334937

Which brings me quite naturally to the feast of Corpus Christi. Bread and wine get transformed, using our priestly magic powers handed down by the laying on of hands via the apostolic succession. Food becomes bits of the temporarily visible third of the Invisible Magic Friend. You can be absolutely sure of this because I wouldn’t lie about something that important.

Plus I went for a walk and talked to some people.

There’s just so much happening in the world. It’s getting quite difficult to cram it all into just three minutes.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AweXtK6vtdYQKfVTPRLgEoSUnfnzstNO/view?usp=sharing