Intelligent journalists who are normally capable of mental subtlety and of coping with complexities have abandoned their critical faculties. There is an atmosphere of unreason.
Sunday, 28 March 2010
A plea for reason
There is a good piece by Andrew Brown on the Telegraph blogs today which makes a plea for journalists to apply reasonable standards to the current Pope story: Why can't the media treat the Pope fairly?. As he says:
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This was the best thing I've read on the subject in ages. Thank you Andrew Brown (and thank you, as ever, Father).
Father,
journalists won't apply fair standards to the Pope or to the Catholic Church, because we are not like the others, we are different.
We are the Truth.
In fact, it should be a bit insulting for us to be treated like the rest.
Javier
Well,
on second thought, "we are the Truth" sounds very arrogant.
The Church, the Bride of Christ, is the custodian of the Truth on earth. We are just its very imperfect and fallible members.
Still, we must remember Christ does not demand victory from us. He just demands the battle. He gives victory, if He so desires.
Javier
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