...of conspiracy theories that circulate pointlessly in the gossipy fringes of Catholic internet chat. For years as a Catholic journalist I'd get photocopied newsletters telling me that the FreeMasons Were in Charge of the Vatican and that this or that ex-priest had Definite Information About The Most Dreadful Goings-On, from a Source That Couldn't Be Revealed...and one got various versions of a story about something that had happened or, oops, no, this time it was the same event but with another year and another Cardinal and a different set of freemasons...and it was all going to end with a big ghastly event in 1983...er...1997...no...2000....er...2010...er...and it had Been Revealed in a Vision in 1870-something, but really was linked to the Illuminati many years earlier. And so on. And so on. And now the internet is making it all much worse, and I've had two or three versions of various conspiracy-theories that have been recycled in newer forms. Some contradict one another and most have passed their sell-by date and been rehashed...
What is never clear is why circulating all this is supposed to be useful.
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