Very many thanks to this month’s Northern Cross, an official publication of the Catholic Church and distributed (not officially, but in at least fifty per cent of cases, free) at the back of every Catholic church between the Tweed and the Tees, for this month’s brief but wholly uncritical (indeed, positively complimentary) write-up.
We may more than hope for a great deal more coverage like that around the country, by no means only among the very, very, very angry Catholics, a significant force (one among several) beyond Latteland and in the entirely different country called the United Kingdom.
We couldn’t buy that sort of coverage. But then, we don’t need to. It is happily laid on for free.
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I wonder whether, for those of us who do not subscribe to the Northern Cross, you could post the article here? It may demand a little transcribing, perhaps, but you said yourself that the piece was brief.
ReplyDeleteApart from a little compliment to the style, it's nothing that has never been on here. Or which does not appear on here very frequently, in fact.
ReplyDeleteWhich is rather the point: apart from that, it reprinted electioneering material by me word for word and without comment (even including my email address), in an official publication of Holy Mother Church, distributed almost exclusively on church premises, and for which the editorial staff must know that a good fifty per cent of readers do not even pay.
Here's to a lot more of that sort of thing.
Bloody hell, if you don't mind my saying so.
ReplyDeleteThe Pro-Life Alliance never got that sort of treament. The Church was very shy of it. But this is the nearest thing she does in England to an all out endorsement.
Assuming the rest of your coalition is quietly coming on nicely, then at least in the North East you are pretty much in. All you have to do is keep up what you are already doing.
Was it a letter to the editor?
ReplyDeleteNo. As I said, they even put in a little complimentary bit of their own. They are right behind us. Australia in the Fifties is starting to come to mind.
ReplyDeleteBut this is a much larger coalition than that, of course. Yes, we want (and in the North East now look very likely to have) a captain getting out the vote in every Catholic parish. And we also want one in every union branch, young farmers' club, Evangelical congregation, and many more besides - everywhere, in fact, where anybody wants to be one.
I can't get the Northern Cross online - could you please post the piece here? At the very least, post the "little complimentary bit of their own" - although it would be great to see the whole thing.
ReplyDelete"Quite an opening"
ReplyDeleteApart from that, it's all been here many times before.
Their website is here, but it costs £1.50 to have even a quick peek at the actual text.
ReplyDeleteWorth every penny, I'm sure. The cover price is only 60p, but I suppose they have to make up for all the people who don't pay, usuually because there is nowhere to put the money.
ReplyDeleteWe are in the column entitled Whatever Next.
I don't know why this is exciting quite so much interest on here, I have to say.
I would imagine it is because it is the only evidence that people have seen that you are promoting BPA beyond this blog.
ReplyDeleteThen they've been looking in the wrong places. The Internet, for example. One thing this has shown is that, as far as some people are concerned, if something not online, or at least in the public domain, then it does not exist. Oh, but it does...
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