Fr Derek Turnham: Blogging should be made a serious criminal offence
Blogged by James Preece on 30th September 2011
Fr Derek Turnham, communications officer for the Diocese of Middlesbrough has said that blogging should be made a serious criminal offence. He wrote to blogger Richard Collins...
Dear Richard
Thank you very much for kindly responding with the information about your research.
I am afraid that for personal ethical reasons I am not prepared to co-operate – I believe that blogging as currently manifested should be made a serious criminal office because of the significantly negative comments that are so often made about people who are trying to do their best are so destructive to the good of society.
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This is Fr Derek Turnham who was acting director of schools for the Diocese of Middlesbrough when I complained that Connexions were being promoted in Catholic schools. Remember Connexions? They are the people who promote contraception and refer fourteen year old girls for abortion without parental knowledge or consent.
Fr Derek Turnham presumably doesn't think abortion should be a serious criminal offence? He thinks that if you help with that then you should be promoted in Catholic schools!
Remember:
The bloggers are the problem.
The bloggers are the problem.
The bloggers are the problem.
There's no place like home...
Reader Comments
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Philip said...
...and presumably speaking; and writing things down on paper??? No doubt, if challenged, he would say it was a joke, but it is very difficult to tell. One really has to question both his communication skills and his intelligence.
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Chrysostom said...
Girls can be given abortions without even the knowledge of their parents, let alone consent. Schools, including Catholic schools, are dishing out vile condoms. Children as young as five are being brain-washed about homosexuality and told lies, since they are told there is no health risk, but, in fact, practising homosexuals are not even allowed to donate blood. The Catholic Education Service, an agent of the Bishops' Conference supports all the above but it is supposed to be blogs that are the big moral problem of our age. It passes belief. Truly, we are in the age of the Anti-Christ.
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Simon Platt said...
Sadly, practising homosexuals are about to be permitted to give blood - in England, at least.
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Sapientia said...
Well, of course giving blood is one of their human rights, rather than an act of altruism. What does it matter if the occasional innocent recipient of the blood gets infected with HIV or Hepatitis C? It is much more important that this vociferous group don't have their feelings hurt by being told their blood isn't quite what was wanted.
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Victor S E Moubarak said...
I think I just heard the devil laugh!
God bless.
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Ben Trovato said...
But things were so much better when the professionals - the diocesan comms officers, for example - were in control of the Catholic press. We heard none of this whinging then...
Was it Solzhenitsyn (?) who said it was the photocopier that really destroyed the Soviet Dictatorship: the authorities could no longer control the flow of information and suppress things they did not want the people to know.
Blogging is the 21st century photocopier...
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Annie Elizabeth said...
As Pope Paul VI said, "through some unknown fissure, the smoke of Satan has entered the Sanctuary of the Church."
Hmmmmm.
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John said...
@ Ben: Diocesan Communications Officers in control of the Catholic press? It has never been the case!
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Ben Trovato said...
I think, pre-blogging and all that, there have been periods when the Catholic Press and the various employees of the bishops, both nationally and locally were, how shall we put this, all singing from the same hymn sheet. Those happy days are now past and the comms professionals can no longer dictate what we amy or may not discuss in the public square.
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