When I wrote about the BBC bias in reporting World Youth Day, I had not seen the article by Abbot Christopher Jamison OSB in the Times: The Pope, negative press and World Youth Day, Sydney. He says:The Australian ran a leading article saying that the Sydney Morning Herald and the ABC were guilty of ‘squalid myopia’, urging Australians to be proud of hosting WYD in Sydney. Surprisingly, the BBC correspondent in Australia appears to be following the ABC agenda, so BBC reports are heavily weighted towards the clerical abuse agenda. Stunning images of joyful young people lining Sydney harbour were accompanied by a commentary on clerical abuse.Cynical as I am about the BBC, the only word I would disagree with here is "surprisingly."
Congratulations to Abbot Jamison for getting this article published in the Times. It is important for Catholics not to remain silent about this unjust treatment in our "public service" broadcaster.
On a positive note, let me quote the way in which the Holy Father summed up the experience of World Youth Day in his sermon at the Mass at Randwick Racecourse:
Here in Australia, this “great south land of the Holy Spirit”, all of us have had an unforgettable experience of the Spirit’s presence and power in the beauty of nature. Our eyes have been opened to see the world around us as it truly is: “charged”, as the poet says, “with the grandeur of God”, filled with the glory of his creative love. Here too, in this great assembly of young Christians from all over the world, we have had a vivid experience of the Spirit’s presence and power in the life of the Church. We have seen the Church for what she truly is: the Body of Christ, a living community of love, embracing people of every race, nation and tongue, of every time and place, in the unity born of our faith in the Risen Lord.
8 comments:
Father, you may wish to correct the intials after Abbot Christopher's name. Abbot Christopher is an OSB and not a SOB. I doubt even his brthren would think him a SOB.
It is very interesting, would Auntie cover an Islamic event in such a way? I think we all know the answer.
Fr., Abbot Christopher isn't a SOB, he's an OSB ;)
Whoops! Mind you I expect the BBC think he is a SOB after that article! corrected now - many thanks for alerting me so quickly.
I quite agree.I had thought this of the BBC coverage myself. The secular-liberla lobby love thbe "abuse" issue as it is a stick with which to beat the church. The real issue, is of course, the church's opposition to abortion and the Marxist-feminist lobby want to rubbish the church. The facts are these: the church does not have a bad record on the ill treatment of children. there have been a tiny number of pederastic incidents. Proportionately, there have been more cases among social workers and policemen. 50 police were arrested in Operation Ore which investigated pederastic (the right term) porn. The church should not be lilly livered but come out fighting. The church has been had and is in thrall to the Stalinist COPCA.
The Pope's message to young people, which I saw on EWtn at a friend's house, was inspiring.
And we are still coerced (constant reminders that there's a TV licence mobile unit in your area, AND WE KNOW WHERE YOU ARE, you WILL be found out and heavily fined - how about hung, drawn and quartered to boot!!!) into paying this outrageous BBC licence in this country. For what? To have the Faith we love demeaned and put-down at every opportunity by their 'pin-head' reporters!
Makes me cross.
Auntie's anti-Christian bias is pretty obvious. Almost every day a religious topic appears on the "Have Your Say" section of the BBC's online news site - but it seems to me that the only reason they do is because the media types at the Beeb enjoy seeing the rabid, foaming anti-Christian comments which appear without fail.
There was a recent article in a christian newspaper in Denmark about the future leadership of the Catholic church in England and Wales and Abbot Jamieson was mentioned as the choice. Their source for the article was the tablet. But what are possibilities? I commented on the articles and wrote that the best choices would be either Fr. Aidan Nichols or Fr. Tim Finigan!
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