52 victim cards per deck
The Catholic church is pitching another fit, this time complaining that the BBC is anti-Christian and liberal and secular when it should be pro-Catholic and reactionary and theocratic like – well like the Catholic church.
Cardinal Keith O’Brien said the BBC’s news coverage is contaminated by “a radically secular and socially liberal mindset”…
“Senior news managers have admitted to the Catholic church that a radically secular and socially liberal mindset pervades their newsrooms. This sadly taints BBC news and current affairs coverage of religious issues, particularly matters of Christian beliefs.”
They certainly do think they’re owed a great deal of deference and air time, don’t they, especially for people who are mired in an institutional scandal about pervasive child-rape and obstruction of justice. Perhaps they would like the BBC to spend more time on that subject?
“Senior news managers have admitted to the Catholic church…” Did they have to be racked or was showing them the instruments of torture enough ?
The BBC dismissed Cardinal O’Brien’s criticism of its religious coverage and denied that it had marginalised mainstream religious issues, which it said were placed “at the heart” of its schedule.
Aye, the mainstream religious issues ‘at the heart’ being none other than ‘clerical child sexual abuse.
Who is it to cry ‘marginalised’, when ‘marginalised’ is precisely what the church has created in the lives to countless recipients of child abuse, for the rest of their lives.
‘marginalised’ is a by word for recipients
They seem to forget that Catholicism IS marginal in the UK. Why do they think hardly anyone wants their pope to come here – let alone at our expense?
There are 26 million adherents to Anglicanism as opposed to 5 million to Catholicism. A huge margin!
““Senior news managers have admitted to the Catholic church that a radically secular and socially liberal mindset pervades their newsrooms. This sadly taints BBC news and current affairs coverage of religious issues, particularly matters of Christian beliefs.”
So at least we have a senior Catholic admit it – Catholicism, if against the above, is for Theocracy and Reaction.
Exactly. That’s what I was getting at in my first sentence – they’re admitting they’re against equality, liberty, human rights, freedom of and from religion, and for their opposites.
The BBC is run by a Catholic. What do they want? Wall to wall vatican propaganda?
O’Brien probably considers L’Osservatore Romano to an organ of secular propaganda.
When priests use the word “secular”, it usually does not mean a lack of overt religiosity or neutrality with respect to religion. Rather, it is intended to convey both hedonism and a desire to make all forms of religious expression illegal. You are intended to picture someone who gets up on Sunday morning and cackles gleefully while defecating on the altar in front of hundreds of horrified churchgoers before returning to her usual lifestyle of drugs, rampant promiscuity, and monthly abortions.
Is it just me, or do the Catholic church’s press releases nowadays consist mainly of lashing out at the enemies that are apparently all around them? They really have convinced themselves that the entire world is persecuting them for no good reason.
It is the no good reason bit I have a problem with. There are plenty of reasons for persecuting the Catholic Church.
Why does the BBC iPlayer list programs on “religion and ethics” within the “factual” category.
They do not belong there!
I suppose the Catholic church’s sense of victimhood is an artifact of the Interwebz. People can talk back to them now – not just on Sundays, not just people who have newspaper or magazine columns, but millions of people, hour by hour, minute by minute. Lots and lots and lots of people now have the tools to make their disgust at Catholic reaction public and explicit, and we do just that, so now they know.
Yay!
It’s really unfortunate that there was (and still is, though to a lesser extent) real anti-Catholic bigotry. It makes it that much harder to get Catholics and others to accept legitimate criticisms of the organization and its practices.
I see the same thing with my wife’s relatives in regards to antisemitism. It makes it very difficult for them to distinguish between anti-Israeli prejudice and legitimate criticisms of Israeli policies.
I have no problem with the BBC listing programs discussing ethics under the factual category. I do have a problem with the BBC lumping religion and ethics into one. The BBC, especially Radio 4, does some good programs on ethics that do not have any religious input. This summer there was an excellent series called “Inside the Ethics Committee” that each week took a real-life medical case that posed serious ethic dilemmas and looked at how those responsible for resolving such dilemmas would do so.
The RC church’s core mode of operation is “lashing out at the enemies that are apparently all around them”, and has been ever since Pontius was a pilot [or thereabouts]. Ask a Gnostic.