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 Tablet, the
Description: International Catholic weekly magazine. Newest Review: ... because conservative theology is just as ridiculous as liberal, although it tends to be better expressed. Libby Purves’ ... more  ... op-ed is a good example of that. She's writing about live - sorry, “real-time” - religious services on the radio: “There's something about a real-time sharing of the moment that strikes a profoundly human response.” As opposed to a profoundly avine or profoundly asinine response, I suppose. Elsewhere in this issue Nicola Meyrick (who she?) enriches the spiritual store of the still male-dominated etc, etc, with an article in which, according to the front cover, she “confr...more |
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Tablet, the: Don't mention the Whore... (399 words)
by amygdala - written on 15.07.00 (Somewhat useful, 29 readings)
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Libby Purves is a fatuous and egotistical journalist, so it should come as no surprise to learn that she's a Christian too. A Catholic as it happens, but because she's a liberal Catholic that doesn't make much difference. She wrote a prominent op-ed for the March 2000, issue of The Tablet, which, if you’ve not come across it before, is a great and widely respected Catholic weekly. Or rather, it was. That is, it's still a Catholic weekly, but it's not great or widely respected any more. Not that it ever should have been widely respected, because conservative theology is just as ridiculous as liberal, although it tends to be better expressed. ...
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