A correspondent has sent me a link to this excellent 1978 piece by Malcolm Muggeridge on Humanae Vitae. At that time, Mugg had not yet become a Catholic but he was a seasoned media operator and understood how the MSM (then the only medium) slanted coverage of Pope Paul's landmark encyclical.The great Mugg's description of the panel is amusing:
The people who are assembled for these discussions or panels on the BBC fall, usually, into various categories which are invariable: you generally have a sociologist from Leeds; you also have a life-purist usually with a mustache; you also have a knockabout clergyman of no particular denomination and enormous muttonchop whiskers; and you have, I regret to say, also, usually, a rather dubious fatherHe describes how he mentioned that contraception would not stop with limiting families but would lead to abortion and euthanasia.
And I remember that the panel jeered when I said particularly the last, euthanasia. But it was quite obvious that this would be so.
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Noncatholic prophets dept, OR the Holy Spirit moving beyond the confines of the visible church:
*Clockwork orange, Burgess, 1962: “But we don’t go out much now. We daren’t go out much now, the streets being what they are. Young hooligans and so on. .”
Burgess 1962:The Wanting Seed
"How long had it been in England since anyone had seen a play? For generations, people had lain on their backs in the darkness of their bedrooms, their eyes on the blue watery screen on the ceiling: mechanical stories about good people not having children and bad people having them, homos in love with each other, Origen-like heroes castrating themselves for the sake of global stability"
*Copied from Mark steyn without permission:
http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/4408/26
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