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By Jules Gomes, The Stream, October 21, 2025
Canon Dr. Jules Gomes (BA, BD, MTh, PhD) has a doctorate in biblical studies from the University of Cambridge. Currently a Vatican-accredited journalist based in Rome, he is the author of five books and several academic articles. Gomes lectured at Catholic and Protestant seminaries and universities and was canon theologian and artistic director at Liverpool Cathedral.
“The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous,” Josef Goebbels, Hitler’s minister of propaganda, wrote in a 1941 essay titled Churchill’s Lie Factory.
Had the Machiavellian Goebbels adopted Cardinal Newman’s dictum of burrowing “deep into history,” he might have discovered that the Roman Catholic hierarchy would win hands down if pitted in a “Big Lie” contest against the English.
Rome’s Juicy Historical Fibs
Over the centuries, Rome conjured up whopping porkies to steamroll its global hegemony.
Fr. Johann Josef Ignaz von Döllinger, celebrated as “the most learned Church historian in Germany,” listed over seven forgeries used by the popes to turn the Petrine office into “an absolute monarchy subjected to the arbitrary power of a single individual.” Döllinger was writing just before Vatican I. …
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