Time and time again, readers of Australia's secular newspapers discover that they have been had: thus what some papers presented to them as a genuine news item frequently turns out to be unadulterated myth. The 'new list of deadly sins' (allegedly issued recently by the Vatican) is just one case in point. Some papers also appear ultra-eager to accept letters from those who accept as gospel everything they have read in the very same papers. Letters that endeavour to put the Catholic Church in a bad light invariably appear to receive preferential treatment, and hardly ever is an opportunity given to anyone to set the record straight, present the other side, or inject some balance.
At times I wonder whether some secular newspapers incorporate a reincarnation of that virulently anti-Catholic Aussie rag that was popular with anti-Catholic bigots over half a century ago: a scruffy publication called The Rock.
I strongly recommend to all bigots, and the editors, subeditors and proprietors of secular papers, that they invest in a copy of Christianity on Trial (subtitled Arguments Against Anti-Religious Bigotry) by Vincent Carroll and David Shiflett. An unbiased reading should reduce historical illiteracy, cure tunnel vision, and be a potent antidote against Christophobia.
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