Catholic canon law states that any lay baptised male who has reached the age of reason can be elected to the Papacy. I want you to know what I would do if I was elected as your Pope. Within these pages, inspired by the Holy Spirit, are my promises to you. Welcome, in the name of Jesus, to “The Manifesto for a Lay Pope.”
Catholics to Boycott Israeli goods and services
Following the bombing of Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Aug. 25, 2025 which took the lives of at least 20 people including 5 journalists Caritas Internationalis condemned “the man-made famine and assault on Gaza City” “This is not war. It is the systematic destruction of civilian life,” the Catholic…
Is Donald Trump planning to sell signed copies of the Holy Eucharist
“I may speak in tongues of men or of angels but if I am without Love I am a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal. I may have the gift of prophesy and know every hidden truth; I may have Faith strong enough to move mountains but if I have no Love I am nothing.…
Can a Lay person be elected Pope ?
Speaking to the Pontifical Council for the Laity on June 17th, 2016 the Holy Father said :”We need lay people who take risks, who get their hands dirty, who are not afraid of making mistakes, who go forward. We need lay people with a vision of the future, not confined to the little things of…
Time to ordain Women in the Catholic Church
“The hour comes, the hour has come, in which the vocation of the woman is completed in fullness, the hour in which the woman acquires in society an influence, an irradiation, a power never before reached. It is for this reason, at this moment in which humanity is experiencing such a profound transformation, that women…
Jesus was a Socialist
As a Christian you will have said these words countless times “Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven. ” Have you ever stopped for a moment to consider what they mean. When Jesus gave us our sacred prayer, the Our Father , He was gifting us a profound revelation. It…
Gaza Investment opportunity
It is difficult to imagine any good news associated with the war in Ukraine and the carnage being inflicted upon Palestinians in the Gaza Strip but there is light on the horizon. Recent reports have announced that global defence order books at companies like Britain’s BAE Systems are bulging with eye watering profits attracting significant…
The Wisdom of Pope Francis
“Wisdom means knowing how to make room for silence, so as to be capable of listening to ourselves and to others. It means knowing how to give up some of the time passed in front of the telephone screen to look at the light in the eyes of others, in one’s own heart, in God’s…
Beware of Eucharistic Revival
”Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit, That my thoughts may all be holy.Act in me, O Holy Spirit, That my work, too, may be holy.Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit, That I love but what is holy.Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, To defend all that is holy.Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit, That I always…
Ceasefire in the name of Christ Almighty
A Call for Repentance: An Open Letter from Palestinian Christians to Western Church Leaders and Theologians “Learn to do right; seek justice; defend the oppressed” (Isa 1:17). We, at the undersigned Palestinian Christian institutions and grassroots movements, grieve and lament the renewed cycle of violence in our land. As we were about to publish this…
Now is the time for a patron saint for LGBTQ+ Catholics – Canonise Alana Faith Chen
“Many of us wept when we heard of that young woman who committed suicide because she was bisexual and did not feel welcomed. I wept,” Dominican Fr. Timothy Radcliffe told the Synod of Bishops assembly on Oct. 18. “I hope it changed us.” On December 8th, 2019, Alana Faith Chen died by suicide at 24…
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“I may speak in tongues of men or of angels but if I am without Love I am a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal. I may have the gift of prophesy and know every hidden truth; I may have Faith strong enough to move mountains but if I have no Love I am nothing. I may dole out all I possess or even give my body to be burnt but if I have no Love I am none the better. Love is patient; Love is kind and envies no one. Love is never boastful nor conceited nor rude; never selfish, not quick to take offence. Love takes no score of wrongs; does not gloat over others men’s sins but delights in the Truth. There is nothing Love cannot face; there is no limit to its Faith, its Hope and its Endurance.”
1 Corinthians 13: 1-7
Manifesto for a Lay Pope 