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The Irish for tax is cáin… not to be confused with caoin, which is crying. In life the two great certainties are death and taxes, which is fitting given that many forms of taxation were first introduced to pay for wars. Today’s Vatican…

To paraphrace Carl von Clausewitz, violence is politics by other means. When debate and discussion just becomes too difficult, it can be very tempting for those involved to take "direct action" instead. History is littered with examples of…

According to an article called ‘Help From Above’ on catholicnewsagency.com (get it?) a priest did an exorcism on a town out of a helicopter. I did a line space there because even as I wrote that I had to reread it a few times to make…