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There is no place for God in theories on the creation of the Universe, the physicist and mathematician Professor Stephen Hawking has said: “It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the Universe going.”

One suspects that with a new book to push, being controversial is a way of attracting attention so: “Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist.” All quite amusing and regardless of which side of the “God Debate” you are on.

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I have remarked before that to be a Catholic in the UK is to know for certain that there are a surprising number of people in this Country with an underlying and incipient hostility to the Catholic Church under any and all circumstances.

It breaks out quite regularly over abortion, adoption agencies and most recently, over Priestly sexual abuse of children in their care. If somehow the current Pope can be blamed in anyway, so much the better for these sad people.

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In common with most of the British Press reacting to the Pope visiting the UK in September and in his letter to the British Bishops, expressing his fears over British anti-discrimination laws that have already led to Catholic Adoption Agencies closing down or severing their links with the Catholic Church.

Of course and even in the Independent, the Anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish vote were much in evidence, the Pro-Faggot Lobby was out in force and just for the total intolerance and bigotry, the  Readers comments are worth a browse:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/anger-after-pope-slams-unjust-uk-equality-laws-1886589.html

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Early last Saturday morning I called the Ambulance and my Mother was taken into Weston Hospital. It was an “odd call” in the sense that there was not any one specific ailment to point to like say a heart attack. Possibly she had Flu, certainly a leg infection that was very painful plus she has the most awful pressure sore on her bottom. In fact it turned out that she had three separate infections but none responded to treatment.

I visited her and spoke to her on Sunday morning when she was a gibberish truth to tell but as I looked at her lying in her bed, I was taken straight back to a Hospital in Wandsworth in the late 1970′s where her Mother was just prior to her death, exact same look. When I visited again later that afternoon, she was very deeply asleep although she was apparently pretty sparky that evening when my eldest Son, his wife and my Granddaughter visited her.

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I have always found little to distinguish between the sheer bestiality of both Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Russia towards human beings. From this as a young man I used to joke about people being Communist but with Fascist tendencies which was to say, these two apparent extremes are really the same.

I believe that right across the globe, change for the better will come and will sweep away the Socialist scourge that we have seen in Europe and most especially in the UK where under New Labour we have seen the the combination of a Government of control freaks who have also managed to be totally incompetent and corrupt at the same time as failing to control anything.

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Recently Tony Blair gave an interview to a gay magazine called Attitude and ever the populist decided to challenge the Pope’s “entrenched attitudes” on homosexuality. This is of course as banal an assertion as any fool can make considering whatever views the current Pope has are built upon some 2,000 years worth of thinking.

As a Catholic, I despaired of getting this fool as a convert especially as he was not a brave one having deferred his ‘conversion’ until after he left the Office of PM because “People might think me nuts if I did it whilst in Office…” Clearly no candidate for martyrdom any time soon !

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In the 1688 Bill of Rights and later reinforced in the Act of Settlement in 1701, Catholics were positively discriminated against so that they could never marry into the Royal Family and become therefore Queen or Queen’s Consort and retain their religion and therefore an assumed “allegiance to Rome”.

The proposal is in a Private Members Bill launched by Liberal Democrat MP Evan Harris which as most do, will fail without Government support. However in terms of changing the current state of affairs, even as a Catholic, I oppose such changes and any modifications should be considered carefully and over time.

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On this basis perhaps the Catholic Church can feel ‘at ease’, it will be subject to visceral attacks at every turn and therefore must today count itself as still totally “Relevant”.

This current ‘story’ concerns what the Pope may or may not have said to journalists on a flight in Africa. To be fair, some idiot in the Curia may have “embellished” a word which changed the meaning/interpretation to a broader, more sceptical and aggressively anti-catholic media. The consequence was that the “Western Media” decided it had something to ‘froth about’, truth took a second seat.

Actually and to be truthful, I rather like this “Holy Father” and his media gaffs because he seems truly genuine. He is an “Academic” and therefore truly un-worldly and non-political. In a sense he speaks with enthusiasim and the genuine “haven’t got all the details quite together yet…” Which is what makes him just that bit ‘special’.

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