Anyone who reads today's Gospel about how we find peace and the fact that Jesus tells us he has conquered the world must find it difficult to understand the anger and xenophobia in the current issue of the free sheet 'Alive'.
And all the negative comments about the EU make for painful reading.
In the June issue of 'Alive' one reads: "vulnerable sections of our society are being walloped by foreign imposed 'austerity measures'.
Obviously a snide comment at a 'foreign influence', yet on every page of the newspaper there are examples of the wonderful doings and carry-on of foreigners, whose behaviour obviously impresses the editorial team.
When 'Alive' berates the media for having an agenda does it not strike the editorial team that it has one incredible agenda of xenophobia and almost hatred,
For a free sheet that is constantly attacking taxes at national and EU level it is quite ironic that it avails of charity status to claim back money from Revenue.
It is difficult to understand why a free sheet such as 'Alive' should have charitable status.
In small print at the bottom of Page One 'Alive' carries a 'health warning' pointing out that content does "not necessarily represent the views of the Irish Dominican Province'.
Hopefully the nastiness and anger expressed in the free sheet represents the views of very few Irish Dominicans.
2 comments:
It is surely the essence of a religious redtop.
More's the pity the Priory doesn't seem to have any control over it as it uses the address and the casual reader might well think it was a Dominican publication.
I don't see why RC Churches around the country should facilitate its distribution. I think a few have pulled out of this, and rightly so.
A friend and colleague complained to the Prior a good while ago and was told the Order had no control over it.
It can, however, have its (perverse) uses.
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I see Alive Publishing have a stand (N0. 98) in the main hall at the Eucharistic Congress.
But before people decide to turn up there and have a go at them they should know that this is not the redtop Alive. Rather it is a UK religious publishing crowd.
If you are curious, the list of exhibitors is very interesting.
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