I apologise for not meeting Stuart Reid’s high journalistic standards for nuance, irony and scepticism but its been enough of a challenge trying to keep up with the deluge of anti-Catholic attacks in the media over the past two months. This is a one-man operation, balanced between my other responsibilities as a deacon in the Diocese of Lancaster.For its part, Catholic Voices salutes the Rev Nick Donnelly for his tireless work and many useful posts.
It helps, in any discussion about the so-called "anti-Catholic bias" of the media, to distinguish between the latent ignorance of and hostility to the Church in wider society, and the media itself; naturally, the latter will reflect the former -- not in the sense of reproducing the ignorance, but in asking the Church to confront those criticisms. That's why the media can look anti-Catholic.
