I'm asked, fairly frequently, what I think about the claim that Pope Leo XIII overheard a conversation between God and Satan, where God more or less agreed to let Satan loose on the world for 100 years or so. I've always been sceptical about that alleged conversation - but something surely prompted the Pope...
Pope Francis has written a letter to the Catholics of Scotland which you can read here Now click here to listen to a podcast of a sermon entitled The Deceitful Teaching of Demons delivered on 7/11/21 by Dr William Philip, the Senior Protestant Minister at the Tron Church in Glasgow. He mentions Pope Francis at...
Comment: Some parents try to put off the day when their offspring are allowed smartphones and thus unsupervised access to the internet. This, however, can cause bad feeling and cultivate rebellious attitudes in the young towards their concerned parents. And once they reach the older teenage years, it really isn't possible to ban things, not...
Stephen Fry is being investigated by Irish police over blasphemy claims more than two years after his outspoken comments about God on RTE's The Meaning of Life went viral. Mr Fry described a hypothetical creator as “stupid” and an “utter maniac” for designing a world filled with undue suffering. Asked in 2015 by the programme's host,...
The popular view about human suffering is that it makes it more difficult to believe in God. Even Catholics - indeed, even some priests - express themselves at a loss when dealing with death, especially sudden death or the death of a young person. That's astonishing, and completely contradicts what Catholic believe about the...
