Tim Stanley, blogger, journalist, historian and Catholic

You’ll never guess what I’m going to talk about. Go on, have a try. Give up? OK, I’ll put you out of your misery. We have a new Pope. Hurrah!

I was so worried that we weren’t going to have a pope. Imagine that, being popeless. Who would tell us what was right and what was wrong? There’d be nobody getting infallible messages from the Invisible Magic Friend. It’s a terrible thought.

I became a Catholic because I loved being part of a patriarchal, highly conservative, anti-gay, reactionary, criminal cover up organisation, with a group of men with magic powers to make lumps of Jesus, and a founder that went up into the sky on a cloud. It’s difficult to explain why.

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