Letters

Phillip Adams

Frank Bellet

Contents - May 2006 - Buy a copy now Editorial: Benedict XVI: love and truth are inseparable Papacy: Benedict completes his first twelve months as Pope - Fr Ephraem Chifley News: The Church Around the World Satellite service: EWTN Australia Events: Carnivale Christi 2006 scheduled for Melbourne and Sydney in May - AD2000 Report Benedict's first twelve months: 'We Are Church' delivers its verdict - Michael Gilchrist Catholicism-lite's Church of convenience - Paul A. Wagner University: Students should challenge dissenting teachers - Dr Michael Casey Vocations: Can religious life be rebuilt in Australia? - Sr Mary Augustine OP Foreign priests - a tale of two Brisbane parishes - Bob Osmak Letters: Adoption - our experience - Bella and Leon Voesenek Letters: Bigotry - Maureen Federico Letters: Religious dissent - Kevin McManus Letters: Lay led liturgies in Rockhampton diocese - Jessie Roger Letters: Actions and attitudes - S. Chaston Letters: Liturgical abuses - Rosanna Sherman Letters: Inclusive language - John Daly Letters: Elites - Peter Gilet Letters: Conscience - Jerome Gonzalez Letters: Modernism - Don Gaffney Letters: Intelligent Design - Michael Griffiths Letters: Creationism? - Fr G.H. Duggan SM Letters: Phillip Adams - Frank Bellet Letters: Warning! Letters: Rosary beads request - Jim Smith Books: The Victory Of Reason, by Rodney Stark - Michael Gilchrist (reviewer) Books: On The Way To Jesus Christ, by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) - Jacinta Cummins (reviewer) Books: Young Faces of Holiness: Modern Saints in Photos and Words, by Ann Ball - Jacinta Cummins (reviewer) Books: Stimulating reading from AD Books Reflection: Oneness in Christ: the heart of the priesthood - Fr John W. O'Neill PP

It would seem that it is OK, in this PC world, to write or preach any lie about Christianity in general or the Catholic Church in particular, but don't attempt to counteract the lies in this nation of "free speech", with some facts, because your letter won't be published.

Phillip Adams claimed, in a recent column (The Australian, 4 March), that before the fatwa on Salman Rushdie, Australian Catholics were "officially" informed from every pulpit in the country that it was a sin to read any newspaper or listen to any radio featuring Philip Adams. He either has allusions of grandeur or he jests.

I have been a Catholic all my life and when possible, go to Mass every day. I have done this in every state in the Commonwealth and in many countries throughout the world. I have attended Mass when it was celebrated in Latin, English, Italian, German, Croatian, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch. Not once, in all that time, have I heard mentioned or even whispered in hushed tones, the name Philip Adams - or even Philipo Adamsio. Not once!

FRANK BELLET
Petrie, Qld

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 19 No 4 (May 2006), p. 16