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Win a pair of tickets to Nottingham Forest v Liverpool! 🌳🎟️ To enter: 📲 Follow Parimatch UK 👍 Like this post 🔁 Retweet this post T&Cs apply. #NFFC

The pundits won’t praise #NFFC transfer dealings after 2 years mocking Forest and Marinakis. In which case I’ll do it myself. Starting with… 🧵

Mass attendance in England and Wales continues post-pandemic growth. 2023 figures up 10% on 2022 figures. 2016: 772k 2017: 739k 2018: 713k 2019: 702k 2020: no data 2021: 390k 2022: 503k 2023: 553k Source: CBCEW

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At Coventry University for #dbiconf2025. Exciting stuff.

A Jesuit liturgy prof once told me “at Mass, you walk in, everyone stands, fanfare plays, you’re wearing clothes that date from the Roman Empire, and you’re going to consecrate Jesus in the Eucharist. Do you really think a bad joke after the greeting makes you one of the guys?”

Just got round to reading the new Iona Institute report on religion and fertility, in context of demographic decline. It's excellent. Obv focus on Ireland (which is a remarkable case study in itself) but also hugely useful as primer on global picture and wider literature.

Just so you know, Catholics sing a worship song written by a woman every evening.

In 2021, the world was told that mass graves of Indigenous children had been discovered at former residential schools in Canada. This led to outrage, protests, and even 120+ Catholic churches being vandalised or burned down. (1)

World Book Day at Nursery. Hoping there aren't any other Midwich Cuckoos.

Three extremely poor decisions. 3 #nffc players not picked. We warned the FA that the Manager was a German fan before they appointed him. Our patience has been tested once again. #nffc will now consider their option.

Finally subscribed to the The Athletic | Football - Paul Taylor and Megan Feringa deserve a raise (even if just of a shared £1 a month for the first year, followed by £3 a month thereafter) #nffc

Imagine if this was a trailer for a documentary 👀 🔥🔥🔥🔥 #NFFC #COYR

A work of genius

"In 2023, Cranney & Stephen Bullivant..surveyed Catholics & found that half expressed interest in attending a Latin Mass..Perhaps counterintuitively, this return to tradition seems to be led by young Catholics, who make up a disproportionate share of Latin Mass devotees."

"beyond the competency of the Scottish Govt"