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Pope to replace Christmas mass with PowerPoint presentation

The Vatican has announced that this year’s Christmas mass is to be replaced with a PowerPoint presentation about Jesus’ birth.

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Posted: Dec 19th, 2009
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Experts agree boy’s failure to ask teenage girl out probably is the end of the world

no point even texting anymoreScientists and religious leaders were united last night in agreeing that it was almost certain that a global apocalypse was imminent following the failure of Jimmy Welch to ask 13-year-old Emma Thorpe to the school disco.

‘We were alerted to the disturbing news after Emma’s mother overheard her daughter in her bedroom crying that this was it, that it was all over and that she was just going to die,’ explained Robert James, an environmental science professor at University College London, ‘and considering the data available – and that Jimmy is now going to the disco with that skank Sarah Miller – we think she may have a point.’

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Posted: Nov 28th, 2009
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Marmite soldiers to replace communion breads in Eucharist

Following the discovery of an image of Christ seen on the underside of a Marmite jar lid, Pope Benedict XVI has announced that from now on, the Eucharist will be celebrated with Marmite soldiers instead of the communion host.

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Posted: May 30th, 2009
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Pope/Bear hybrid found in Vatican toilets

‘Papa-Ursus’ is world’s first creature to combine both papal and ursine DNA.

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Posted: Apr 6th, 2009
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Pope moves Easter to October

Big fan of freeride snowboardingThe Vatican has announced that Easter, the holiest festival in the Christian calendar, will this year be celebrated in October to avoid a clash with the Pope’s spring holiday plans.

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Posted: Apr 4th, 2009
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