Wow, revolting even by the standards of free-standing altars in Roman churches, which is saying something.

Damian Thompson Maybe the words “Latin Patriarch” hint at even more?

It’s not a fiddleback chasuble.

Is Pizzaballa really celebrating as orientem? And in a Roman chasuble, too.

Note the ‘grandmother’s lace’. Pizzaballa is papabile and deservedly so. Belongs to no faction, a scholar, brave in his Christian witness.

And this. Not hard to read between the lines. Grech will throw a fit:

Still no reply from Gerard O’Pressrelease, who’s busy breaking exclusive stories:

Notice how she’s careful to remind us that she’s an *Ivy League* revolutionary.

The Tories aren't going to beat Khan so you may as well all vote for the smaller parties. Just saying...😉 (Vote Social Democratic Party! 🗳 )

Such a non-story compared to the scandals Christopher White studiously ignores. Francis tells people what they want to hear, and even exempted a whole continent from giving Tucho’s gay blessings. Church teaching is still adamant that LGBT people can’t have sex. But they can be…

She may be a young droning leftist, but deep down she’s as haughty and entitled as a dowager from Downton Abbey.

Yes he is and yes it is

The man is sick

Heather Stromeyer Damian Thompson Catholic Herald Examine their shortcomings? This is akin to a bishop saying the young victims of abuse were in fact the perpetrators, as in they seduced the abuser clerics.

Damian Thompson Misguided attempt to appeal to children. Forgetting that a significant number of children find clowns creepy and frightening.

Liberal Catholics are almost as obsessed with clowns as TV serial killers 🤡

Look at these poisonous sneers directed at a mother of young children fighting cancer:

Only Tuesday, and already this week I’ve heard not only the tired trope that if you dare to ask about Rupnik you just hate the pope, but also the unimaginably wicked suggestion that the nuns he abused should also be investigated.

What exactly does this evil man have on Francis?

Look at this disgusting comment

The big question is timetable. For how much longer will The Spectator and Daily Telegraph be in limbo? In a fast-changing market, limbo has a real cost.

The 22 potential bidders painstakingly found last time can be reconvened in a heartbeat. No need to drag this out over summer.