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Our man in Baghdad.

Posted by Christopher Mc on Sunday, May 10, 2009, In : Church 

I have been scanning the internet for two days trying to find a photo like this after my wife spotted him at the airport line-up in Jordan.

No I don't mean the Holy Father, but Monsignor Michael Crotty, Cloyne's finest, the number two of the Nunciature in Iraq.
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Pope's visit to Jordan

Posted by Christopher Mc on Friday, May 8, 2009, In : Church 


The Friday Competition - try and find a news service covering the Holy Father's trip to the Near East that doesn't mention his 2006 Regensberg speech which "outraged" Muslims or the recent lifting of the excommunication of Bishop Williamson which "outraged" some Jews just recovering from their "outrage" over the possible beatification of Pope Pius XII and the "outrage" at the restoration of the Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite.

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