Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] as the misogynistic, homophobic and bigoted religious are over-represented. Unchecked immigration floods the country with predominantly Roman Catholic young, just as, to curry favour with Islam, the pope reinserts hatred of ‘the Jews’ into the third Station of the Cross at Easter. The prime minister presents himself with a Koran under his arm, collapsing […]
Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££
[…] with distinctive SS tattoo marks. The Catholic Church did all it could to save what it called these “poor refugees’: Bishop Ivan Bucko, with help from the Pope, acted on their behalf in much the same way as Father Dragonovic did with the Croatian Ustashi. After “basking in the sun’ in Italy for two […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] remains a virtual network linking FOI movements globally and an ‘institutional memory’ for transparency and access to information rights throughout the world. Notes See for example: Justin Pope, ‘9/11 conspiracy theorists thriving’, Associated Press Online 7 August 2006; Richard Roeper, ‘Academics fill grassy knoll spot abandoned by Oliver Stone’, Chicago Sun Times 8 August […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
Noam Friedlander London: Conspiracy Books/Collins and Brown, 2005, p/bk, £8.99 Apart from being an anagram of Oedipus, Opus Dei is a Roman Catholic organisation, which has grown from beginnings in Spain in the 1920s, led by José Maria Escriva, to being an evangelising force within the Catholic Church, aimed as much at the lay … Read more
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] halt the persecutions and exterminations in Nazi-occupied Europe. In his book Who Is My Liege? Young gives an authoritative account of this approach through Monsignor Montini, later Pope Paul VI, which is strangely ignored in recent lengthy and inaccurate publications on this controversial topic. For his work in Rome Young was awarded an MBE, […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] von Papen in ‘the late summer of 1942’ asking if he could broker a peace between Britain, Germany and the US (but, note, not the Soviet Union). Pope Pius XII himself arranged meetings, the objectives of which would have been the removal of Hitler, the disbanding of the SS, a centre-right government in Germany, […]
Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££
[…] of German politicians, mainly Christian Democrats, who are having the report translated into German. And he had shown a copy to the Spanish Minister and to the Pope. NSIC in New York had bought 500 of the ISC’s initial print order, and another 500 had been bought by the American Bar Association. In effect […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] found its way into one of Jack Higgins’s more preposterous novels, namely Confessional, in which we all presumably root for the KGB hit-man trying to kill the Pope. (Sectarian joke!) 7. The Militants were founded by Davey Payne and John White around the time of Elliot and Fogel’s demise in the UDA. (Boulton, 1972; […]
Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££
[…] (April 1982) transferred to Sardinia. A month later Agca made his first statements on the role of the Bulgarian secret service in the attempted assassination of the Pope. But what of Musumeci’s role in this? In October 1984 General Pietro Musumeci, former vice-director of SISMI, was arrested on charges of embezzlement, conspiracy and alleged […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] made by Seldon for Blair being a moral individual. His relationship with God, though, is totally personal rather like Ian Paisley without the bombast. Neither the Pope nor the Archbishop of Canterbury have been able to make much headway against Blair’s certainty in his own judgement. The real PM Seldon investigates at some […]