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Anti-papal Protesters “Not Representative” of British: Catholic Voices Spokesman
By Hilary White
ROME, September 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The hostility that the papal visit has engendered among a “small, well organized group” of homosexualist and hard-core secularist activists is “extraordinary,” but their opinion is not representative of the general British public, said Austen Ivereigh, a journalist and deputy editor of the liberal Catholic magazine, The Tablet, in an interview with LifeSiteNews.com (LSN).
Ivereigh, who is acting as a co-coordinator and spokesman for the group Catholic Voices, which has been leading the charge in defending Pope Benedict’s state visit, told LSN he believes the tide of anti-Catholic media coverage is about to turn.
The anti-visit campaigners have “shot their load” and their efforts will backfire, he said. Rather than the fiasco predicted by the papal critics, Ivereigh expects the visit to be a smash hit with ordinary British people, both Catholic and non, who will be impressed with the personal charm of the pope himself.
The Catholic journalist pointed to what he called a pattern in the responses to previous papal controversies, such as the pope’s comments on condoms and AIDS transmission. Whereas the loud anti-Catholic voices often get the first wave of press, the second wave always brings out the more measured, balanced opinions in response
Anti-papal Protesters “Not Representative” of British: Catholic Voices Spokesman
By Hilary White
ROME, September 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The hostility that the papal visit has engendered among a “small, well organized group” of homosexualist and hard-core secularist activists is “extraordinary,” but their opinion is not representative of the general British public, said Austen Ivereigh, a journalist and deputy editor of the liberal Catholic magazine, The Tablet, in an interview with LifeSiteNews.com (LSN).
Ivereigh, who is acting as a co-coordinator and spokesman for the group Catholic Voices, which has been leading the charge in defending Pope Benedict’s state visit, told LSN he believes the tide of anti-Catholic media coverage is about to turn.
The anti-visit campaigners have “shot their load” and their efforts will backfire, he said. Rather than the fiasco predicted by the papal critics, Ivereigh expects the visit to be a smash hit with ordinary British people, both Catholic and non, who will be impressed with the personal charm of the pope himself.
The Catholic journalist pointed to what he called a pattern in the responses to previous papal controversies, such as the pope’s comments on condoms and AIDS transmission. Whereas the loud anti-Catholic voices often get the first wave of press, the second wave always brings out the more measured, balanced opinions in response
Anti-papal Protesters “Not Representative” of British: Catholic Voices Spokesman