The Daily Mail is reporting that the first ever slice of cake from the wedding of Kate and William has attracted bids of almost £1,500 as fans of the royal two vie to get their hands on the royal memorabilia.

With two weeks still to go on the auction, the bidding stands at £1,453 - but as is customary, the auction house expect a flurry of last-minute bids to push the value much higher by the time bidding closes on 24 May.

The boxed fruit cake, supplied to online auction house PFC Auctions...

Fr Martin Henry has an interesting letter in tomorrow's Irish Catholic:

In the current tug of war on the fate of Cardinal Sean Brady, it is frequently stated that he is now suffering from what is termed a “loss of moral credibility”.  As I understand it – or maybe misunderstand it – Christianity teaches, albeit dogmatically, that only one human being has “moral credibility”, namely the Sinless One, Jesus Christ. Or as Friedrich Nietzsche put it: ”In reality there has been only on...

03 May 2012

Dear Chief Constable,
 
I refer you to the recent 'This World' programme broadcast on the BBC and dealing with child abuse in the Roman Catholic Church.
 
It appears from the said programme that Cardinal Brady, in 1975 and since, was in possession of knowledge of serious allegations of criminal activity against a named priest(s), as well as knowledge of victims and likely victims. In consequence, I wish to enquire if, having regard to his obligations under Section 5 of The Criminal L...

The country is divided into, I think, five groups now:

1. Catholic-hating secularists who want Brady to resign as a blow to the Church;
2. Liberal Catholics who want Brady to resign as a blow to the Church;
3. Orthodox Catholics who want Brady to resign to help save the Church;
4. Orthodox Catholics who don't want Brady to resign because they don't want a victory for groups 1 and 2;
5. Friends and genuine admirers of Brady who don't want him to resign.

Various people are of course now using this si...

Every time you think we're moving into a slightly better place in terms of the abuse scandal, we get dragged back into.  Because Cardinal Brady refuses to resign we end up with other people implicated by having to support him.

We had Archbishop Clifford on Pat Kenny this morning in an appalling performance which sounded like an interview from five years ago.  There was no sense that any crime had been committed.  He couldn't answer a basic question as to what a priest today should do if he dis...

The Irish Times front page today has a story on Sean Cardinal Brady's pay-off to the second man, one of the teenagers he swore to secrecy concerning Fr Brendan Smyth back in 1975.  The deal will be recorded in the High Court today.

The Irish Times reports that "In June 2010 Cardinal Brady reached an out-of-court settlement, said to be worth more than €250,000, with the other teenager whose abuse by Smyth he investigated in 1975."

Now my question is, how did Sean Brady fund a pay-off of a quar...