Damian Thompson

My Spectator article from last month on the disturbing prospect of a Parolin pontificate:

Damian Thompson @holysmoke

Cardinal Parolin is campaigning hard to be the next pope. That alarming prospect should worry all Catholics. My piece from this week’s Spectator: https://t.co/76aZHCZl6S

On this day of mourning it is unfortunately necessary to renew our demand for justice for the poor victims of Fr Marko Rupnik, Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta and others, who were mysteriously denied it during the pontificate that has just ended.

Yesterday I attended a beautifully reverent Traditional Latin Mass, attended by many young people. Let us pray that its persecution will now end and that it will be restored to the place of honour established for it by Pope Benedict. https://t.co/Fy08Mmc2UH

Rest in peace, Pope Francis. https://t.co/WylR4vzUbX

Serial predator ‘Uncle Ted’ McCarrick – one of the architects of the Francis/Parolin China deal – is dead at 94. He leaves behind scores of victims – and powerful allies in the College of Cardinals who are *still* lying their heads off about what they knew and how much he paid

For crying out loud, Catholic Herald, the dog that did nothing in the night-time was *not* the Hound of the Baskervilles. It’s in ‘Silver Blaze’. (And, talking of curious incidents, what a shame Doyle never completed ‘The Adventure of the Protestant Agent’, in which Holmes https://t.co/9LOG40M3n9

New Holy Smoke – Fascinating insights from the Rev Fergus Butler-Gallie on Justin Welby’s failures and Pope Francis’s even more shocking cover-ups of sex abuse: https://t.co/diwNwxcJfJ

Why are Church authorities finally emboldened to move against the monster Rupnik? Because his great protector is too ill to stop them. What a despicable pontificate this is. Where are the rosary vigils for the many women allegedly raped and subjected to pornographic assault by

A sick Pope and a paralysed Vatican: who is really running the Catholic Church? New Holy Smoke episode: https://t.co/7j7H2T0CH4

The Catholic Herald still hasn’t informed its readers that it has – apparently – taken the historic step of appointing an Editor who belongs to the Church of England.

Damian Thompson @holysmoke

The Editor of the Catholic Herald – who decides editorial policy – is an *Anglican*? If true, the Herald has kept very quiet about this historic development. https://t.co/fTyBQSwOJi

The Editor of the Catholic Herald – who decides editorial policy – is an *Anglican*? If true, the Herald has kept very quiet about this historic development. https://t.co/fTyBQSwOJi

Alexander Lucie-Smith @ALucieSmith

Isn't it great that the new editor of the Catholic Herald is an Anglican? It's so ecumenical. And diverse. Exactly what Pope Francis would want.

Days after fresh allegations of accused rapist Fr Marko Rupnik assaulting nuns, the deeply sick and corrupt Vatican communications department is still promoting his artwork: https://t.co/NJ8hxw5qii

Michael Haynes 🇻🇦 @MLJHaynes

BREAKING: Vatican again uses Rupnik art on St Joseph feast, as recurring cycle of his art continues Alleged victims say his art directly linked to his abuse; he painted icons naked from the waist down while aroused; forced threesomes & to drink semen from a chalice Details on https://t.co/ea7PbAyb3P

Cardinal Parolin is campaigning hard to be the next pope. That alarming prospect should worry all Catholics. My piece from this week’s Spectator: https://t.co/76aZHCZl6S

Catholic Herald Vatican correspondent deplores ‘clericalist internal culture that Pope Francis has fought so hard to reform’. Uh? It’s a strange ‘reform’ that requires the protection of clergy convicted of sexual assaults on seminarians or accused of the mass rape of nuns. It’s

The slaughter of religious believers in Syria has begun. First the Alawites, next the Christians. Must-read Spectator piece by the great Fr @benedict_kiely: https://t.co/DbDZzB7py7

The filthy humour of Dame Myra Hess! My piece from this week’s Spectator: https://t.co/jSeyLovkjN

What is happening to formerly reliable Catholic publications? First the Catholic Herald kneels down in front of Arthur Roche; now the Pillar goes into raptures over McElroy’s installation, steering well clear of the subject of Ted McCarrick:  https://t.co/BKpOx5ESx2