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Wednesday, 19 April 2006

The BBC's spin on the Pope

Among the "Pope Benedict one year on" stories is the predictable take from the BBC. Former sister Lavinia Byrne is quoted as saying:
"I am very disappointed, because I thought he would be more interesting and sparky. We know who his tailor is, and whose sunglasses he wears, but we do not know much about what he thinks."
Given his voluminous output, a person could only fail to know much about what he thinks if she (a) hasn't read much of what he has written, or (b) hasn't understood much of it.

This is routine, self-absorbed, smarty-pants, British media spin. The luvvies have not read his books and have shown interest only in his sunglasses and his clothes, so "we do not know much about what he thinks". And our nation is still glued to this garbage daily!

So before your brains turn completely to porridge, take your television to the nearest "Civic Recycling Centre" and in the hours that you would have spent watching it, read some good books instead. I suggest starting with some of the books written by Cardinal Ratzinger.

4 comments:

George Gawor said...

'Former sisters' should do better than comment on subjects they have clearly not understood and patently failed with!

Of course the BBC choose and vet their Pope bashing, Catholic slanging, Priest bemoaning and blaspheming stooges very carefully.

Nothing new here I am afraid.

George Gawor said...

'Former sisters' should do better than comment on subjects they have clearly not understood and patently failed with!

Of course the BBC choose and vet their Pope bashing, Catholic slanging, Priest bemoaning and blaspheming stooges very carefully.

Nothing new here I am afraid.

Anonymous said...

For sheer amusement go onto the Lavinia Byrne website and look at the photos, it really is a case of "here are my mates and I promise you I have a life"

And just a touch self-indulgent...

dilexitprior said...

The CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) pulled a similar stunt. They had a feature on Wednesday night on Pope Benedict XVI and when I flipped to the channel they were interviewing this woman who looked about in her sixties in a bright pink shirt with short spikey gray hair. Now, I know I shouldn't make superficial judgments or jump to any conclusions, but before I heard anything she said I was thinking "I bet she's a former nun." Sure enough, she was. Said a quick prayer for her to try and take a more charitable response than what I was tempted to. . .

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