Counterknowledge of Liverpool

Damian Thompson is the author of Counterknowledge in which he claims to uncover bogus science and fake history. Well, a boy has to live. However, he's not averse to promoting a little counterknowledge when it suits. One of his recent such stories concerned St Vincent de Paul Church, Liverpool (left), which, he claimed, was earmarked as a Tridentine Rite parish.

More recently he followed this up with story claiming the plan had been vetoed by the Council of Priests. Not so, we are reliably informed. The Council of Priests actually voted on plans to suppress the Parish of St Vincent de Paul – and that's quite another issue.

The real knowledge of this Liverpool church came to us from fellow blogger, Scouse Chappie. He has contacts, as his name suggests.

The interesting thing here is that Scouse Chappie originally started reading Thompson's blogs because he is passionate about the old Mass and delighted Pope Benedict has made it more readily available. What he hadn't realised is that his fellow bloggers could be quite so nasty and that they would use pretty foul language about each other and members of the hierarchy.

Mr Chappie, or may I call you Scouse, thank you for your help. We won't shout abuse at you here and, being the confounded liberals that Thompson & Co so despise, we welcome your interest in the Tridentine Rite. We will not, however, be as nasty about our bishops as are the so-called traditionalists who lurk in Holy Smoke.