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Why the Vatican is more corrupt than ever
Last week, Vatican police raided the Church's own money-laundering watchdog. Meanwhile, in a simultaneous raid on the Vatican Secretariat of State, p…
6 years, 9 months ago
The strange religion of cryptocurrency
In this week's episode of Holy Smoke Damian is joined by Jamie Bartlett, one of the world’s leading experts on the dark web, radical politics and tec…
6 years, 9 months ago
The Kremlin's persecution of Jews
Damian talks to Jewish pianist Ariel Lanyi about the cruel cat-and-mouse game that the Soviet Union played with Jewish classical musicians at a time …
6 years, 10 months ago
Why liberals turn a blind eye to the global persecution of Christians
The new episode of Holy Smoke is about the persecution of Christians. That's a familiar concept, even if we don't read much about it in the media. Da…
6 years, 10 months ago
The two time bombs threatening Pope Francis’s moral authority
This week’s Holy Smoke podcast discusses two looming disasters for Pope Francis.
The first is the ‘Amazon Synod’ in October, at which the world’s bis…
6 years, 11 months ago
Lessons learned from Carl Beech and what they mean for Cardinal Pell
Damian speaks to journalist Catherine Lafferty, who was in court for Carl Beech's trial, about the sensitivities surrounding sex abuse allegations. H…
6 years, 11 months ago
How radical Islam taught the progressive left to blame the Jews
It's less than four years since Jeremy Corbyn's hard-left sect seized control of the Labour Party, and yet already its anti-Semitic views – so alien …
6 years, 11 months ago
Does Boris Johnson have Christian values?
With Harry Mount, editor of the Oldie and author of the Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson.
Presented by Damian Thompson.
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6 years, 11 months ago
Why has big business become so woke?
With the Daily Telegraph's Tim Stanley and Father Benedict Kiely, from the charity Nasarean.org, which campaigns in support of persecuted Christians.…
7 years, 1 month ago
Why Bach's The St Matthew Passion speaks to all of us
Every year around the world, many people around the world listen to Bach's three-hour musical depiction of Jesus' trial and execution. Why?
Host Dami…
7 years, 3 months ago