In which the Catholic Boys' Daily offers a Sunday meditation ...

The pond remembers fondly the days it spent amongst the Pellists and the Jensenists, and its celebrations of the certain belief that schismatics, heretics and misguided believers in the whore of Babylon would all end up in hell, perhaps  thereby taking up too much room to allow secularists and atheists enter …

But that was then and this is now, and these days the Catholic Boys' Daily still pays attention to the doings of the Catholics.

As usual, the reptiles - being very afraid of social media - didn't understand that the best way to attract the twittering horde was to advertise that the piece had been scribbled by the best Catholic boy of all, the bromancer himself ...

There's nothing like a bold, premature analysis that might be wrong to get the pond going, especially given the way that the right wing in the United States now tends to see the Pope as the anti-Christ in the warm embrace of Karl Marx …

It's as if they wanted the pond to turn Catholic again ...

Indeed, indeed, thank the long lost lord he maintained a firm attitude to women's rights, but he had weaknesses and failings …

Naturally this is the sort of stuff to set the bromancer's nerves on edge, as if enduring fingernails screeching on a blackboard ...

A bloody relativist. As if the world needs deep pastoral concern …

Luckily, it turns out that everything is the fault of the usual bunch, those damned liberals and secularists and progressives, routinely given to ruining everything ...

Actually, it sounds like it reveals precisely what's wrong with being a conservative Catholic, sounding immensely stupid and irrelevant on the matter of marriage, and on many other matters, as if the Latin mass is the way of the future, while seemingly unaware that a new object of worship has entered the temple …

But that's surely enough for a meditative Sunday, and now the bromancer should get on with his regular foreign affairs worshipping of the new beast in town …