Alive! Newspaper.

Theses conservative religious types will be obliterated soon enough OP. The country is slowly but surely moving on, resigning those proponents of the past to an appropriate fate for the actions they continue to admonish, actions which caused untold suffering for many tens of thousands, most of whom have gone without any form of justice.

The repeal of the 8th Amendment will come soon enough, Ruairi Quinn left - unfortunately - before beginning to secularise our schools, and the auld political codgers who maintained the status quo whatever the administration are dying out.

You actually need a sign stating "addressed mail only" as "junk mail" isn't considered junk by those delivering the mail. I put up one and it cut out 99% of the junk.

Ever read the Irish Catholic?

I Heart Internet wrote: »

Alive is a low-grade freesheet with an agenda. It's easy to ignore if you wish. I read it, avoiding the anti-EU, climate-skeptic stuff. There are plenty of much better catholic newspapers.

Tabernacle Weekly?
Priest's Own?
"Genuflect!"

krudler wrote: »

Tabernacle Weekly?
Priest's Own?
"Genuflect!"

I hear the formerly popular Priest's Own has fallen on hard times, being eclipsed by competition from newer media.

Nodin wrote: »

'Moved On'
'Trust Fund Monthly'

'Readers Altar Boys'
'What Thurible'
'Jane's Crucifixes Quarterly'

legspin wrote: »

'Readers Altar Boys'
'What Thurible'
'Jane's Crucifixes Quarterly'

"The Son"
"Daily Myrrh"

Guardian Angel

'GOODBYE!' Magazine (incorporating 'Did Ye Hear Who's Dead?')

I regarded delivery of Alive! as my community service. I was taking it and protecting some poor vulnerable soul from its contents. It gave me a laugh before contributing to the household heat. Haven't had a copy in ages though, and I could do with it now that the cold weather is back. How can I restart delivery?

Came across the latest offering of this "newspaper" recently. It is alternately creepy and hilarious. The major theme running through the whole rag is that catholicism and catholics are being persecuted, and that the real enemy for them is secularism. (We're obviously getting to them).

Some of the salient points for anyone who can't bring themselves to read it..

- According to the editor "it's great to be a Catholic". Why? you may ask. Well, "Catholics belong to the one true Church", and "they have the certain hope of eternal life and happiness in heaven."

- Apparently, contraception is one of the main reasons for the growth of "the gay agenda". Because of the Pill, people now engage in DSS - deliberately sterile sex - and "once DSS is accepted between a man and a woman, how can it be rejected between two people of the same sex?......or between a brother and a sister?"

- Moanin' Mullen has a column this month. It is, predictably, about Christians being persecuted. To quote his Ronanness, "the basic facts are that most of the oppressed people in our world are Christian". He really said that, "most" are Christian.

- Apparently, Ireland has a state religion, and the religion is Secularism. There is no real attempt to support the idea that secularism is a "religion", it is simply stated. "Fundamentally," Alive tells us, "secularism is a religion of despair." Also, we learn that "Secularism, in fact, is a Christian heresy. ....it works, only because of the remaining traces of Catholicism it still contains." ????????????

This is another theme, of course. The Modern World is in despair, we are all on The Wrong Path. Naturally The Church has the answer.

It is like reading a report from a parallel universe. No mention of sex abuse, mother and baby homes, Magdalen launderies, or the fact that the church still controls 95% of primary schools. Horrifying and hilarious and kind of fascinating.

PopePalpatine wrote: »

That certainly does remind me of that uber-Catholic troll with the mis-spelt version of a Roman writer's name.

Sorry. You'll need to be more specific...?