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| Rose of York | Sunday, 16. November 2008, 16:01 Post #91 |
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| PJD | Sunday, 16. November 2008, 19:12 Post #92 |
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I would say it is food for a new topic. Yes, I am inclined to agree. Will have a look at p11. PJD |
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| Deleted User | Sunday, 16. November 2008, 22:30 Post #93 |
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I had a quick look at the Tablet at the back of church tonight. I should have liked to have read more, but wasn't willing to part with £2.30 (I have memories of reading it on a regular basis some years ago), so I thought I would see what other views there were in blogland. Perhaps I looked in the wrong places because the reviews I came across were universally opposed to the magazine. This one from Ttony's blog went a tad overboard though. KatyA |
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| Gerard | Monday, 17. November 2008, 10:31 Post #94 |
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Thats because the blogisphere is peopled 99% by those of a "nostalgic" persuasion. Gerry |
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| Clare | Monday, 17. November 2008, 11:39 Post #95 |
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Putting the "Fun Dame" into Fundamentalist
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| Clare | Monday, 17. November 2008, 11:43 Post #96 |
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Putting the "Fun Dame" into Fundamentalist
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Here's the permanent link to that piece. Worth noting: when linking to specific blog posts it's better to link to the permanent link than just to the blog, because posts get superseded, and in a week or so, if you click on the link to the blog, you have to search for the post in question; whereas linking to the post itself will take you straight to it. |
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| Bob Crowley | Monday, 17. November 2008, 14:10 Post #97 |
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I had a look at the last blog, with its references to who owns the Tablet etc. I suppose I'd better take an in-depth look at a copy sometime to see what all the fuss is about. Editing and maintaining a Christian / Catholic magazine would be a difficult exercise at the best of times, since Christians tend to hold pretty dogmatic views in my experience. They can range from ultra right wing doctrinaire hardliners who think anyone else is of the devil, to liberal lefties who think everybody else is intolerant. Trying to keep all Christians happy with a magazine would be a full time job. Actually an impossible job. I'll give you an example from a Protestant book I was reading by an American female - "As far as I know, no one registered a complaint. Had they done so, I would undoubtedly have heard - like I did the time somebody turned me in for having a vanilla flavoring at my Bible study's coffee bar. Took a picture of it, in fact, and slapped it on my pastor's desk. Claimed it looked like we were spiking our coffee. Help me, Jesus! You'll be glad to know my pastor laughed." Christians can be petty at times. |
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| OsullivanB | Monday, 17. November 2008, 14:18 Post #98 |
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Some of them are Roman Catholics i.e. Catholics loyal to Rome. Others are SSPX Catholics. There may even be some of their prototypes, the Old Catholics. There are also some cranks. Edited by OsullivanB, Monday, 17. November 2008, 14:21.
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| PJD | Monday, 17. November 2008, 21:19 Post #99 |
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I did look at p11 of The Tablet; but for me it conveyed very little apart from an encouragement to read, study and comment on the Bible etc. To be quite frank most of these kind of initiatives I find to be lacking in originality – although I am sure they mean well. Looking at the forum topics on here relating to the Scriptures, in my opinion, the path taken by our contributors form the best examples of how to encourage interest in such matters i.e. put forward passages, comment on their meaning, and discuss differing opinions. Therein you get concrete examples of texts followed up by suggested conclusions and their relation to Catholic Doctrine. They produce in effect a series of diverse homilies. I would challenge you, when reading of any of these initiatives, to find anything similar or as efficient; especially any concrete textual examples quoted, and indeed anything much that is new or novel. If there is anything new and exciting you are much more likely to find it on forms such as this. PJD |
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| OsullivanB | Monday, 17. November 2008, 21:31 Post #100 |
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At least you had the grace to look. I think there's rather more in that article than you mined from it. However, I never suggested The Tablet should be everybody's preferred reading; just asked that people stop being so rude about it and its readers. I get much more stimulation from The Tablet than any forum. That won't be true of everyone. Edited by OsullivanB, Monday, 17. November 2008, 21:38.
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| Derekap | Monday, 17. November 2008, 21:53 Post #101 |
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I regularly read the following: The Sunday Times The Catholic Times A local weekly paid for and passed on by our daughter (to see if I am still alive) A free local weekly paper delivered. When visiting supermarkets I look at the headlines on other newspapers. For regular news I use the internet and occasionally text on TV. I have no time to read any more newspapers. Edited by Derekap, Monday, 17. November 2008, 21:54.
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| OsullivanB | Monday, 17. November 2008, 22:23 Post #102 |
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Why are you telling us this? It's rather dull, if you'll forgive me for saying so. |
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| Bob Crowley | Tuesday, 18. November 2008, 06:31 Post #103 |
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I'm a bit the same. We get local free papers, but don't buy the national or state newspapers. The other objection I've got to daily newspapers is the enormous wastage of good timber, which is printed once and then discarded. I'd be interested to see what sort of a pile a lifetime's issue of a single large daily newspaper would look like. I think it would be massive. Then turn that into trees wasted. |
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| Gerard | Tuesday, 18. November 2008, 08:02 Post #104 |
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OSB I see this forum as a conversation and, like any conversation, it will involve a mixture of highbrow stuff, low brow stuff and many digressions. Dereks telling us what he reads was just as interesting as you and PJD saying you read the Tablet. It prompted Bob to say something which I will add to. I dont read any newspapers. I listen to radio 4. Gerry |
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| OsullivanB | Tuesday, 18. November 2008, 11:53 Post #105 |
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Gerry I entirely agree. That is exactly what I would be likely to have said in an oral conversation about The Tablet. It did actually cross my mind that there might be a reason (not apparent to me) why he was telling us this. So I asked, as it did not obviously spring from anything that had gone before. I don't for a moment suppose that anyone is interested in the fact that I read one journal rather than another. It does not seem to me to be at all interesting as a fact. All I wanted was to be relieved of the habitual sniping of people who choose the same reading material as me and to offer some insight into why it may be worth having a look at The Tablet. If I hurt or offended Derekap by my response, that was not my intention and I apologise. I hope he just shrugged it off. Lest it be thought that I am trying to avoid this new turn of chat: I read the Times (except on Friday when I read the Independent), the Sunday Times, The Tablet, L'Osservatore Romano (English edition), the Investors Chronicle and Time Out. I also listen to the wonderful Radio 4 , watch too much television and read too few books. I occasionally read the Catholic Times, the Catholic Herald and the Universe, but regard them as poor value for money. Edited by OsullivanB, Tuesday, 18. November 2008, 12:10.
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