Sunday, August 12, 2007

Catholic Social Justice


This is the book to which Damian Thompson has drawn attention for its attacks on Pope Benedict, family values, pro-life campaigners and which has a forward by bishop Budd. I thought it was strange to see on Amazon the other books people have bought who bought this book. It reads:
Customers Who Bought Items Like This Also Bought

The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
The Water Babies DVD ~ James Mason; Bernard Cribbins; Billie Whitelaw; Joan Greenwood; David Tomlinson; Tommy Pender; Samantha Gates; Paul Luty; Jon Pertwee; Olive Gregg; Lance Percival; David Jason; Cass Allan; Liz Proud; Una Stubbs
The Secret Garden (Penguin Popular Classics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Peter Pan (Penguin Popular Classics) by J.M. Barrie
Jungle Books (Penguin Popular Classics) by Rudyard Kipling
The Wind in the Willows (Penguin Popular Classics) by Kenneth Grahame


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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

How do they write such trash?

Woops not the water Babies etc..the so-called catholic one!

On the side of the angels said...

it's called 'being challenging and confrontational' and 'asking awkward questions' - if you ask me perhaps if they'd spent a little time performing catholic social action rather than theorising about it the country and the book might have been in better conditions.

Alnwickian said...

I was delighted to see that among the comments on Damian Thompson's blog is one from someone called Dorothea ffoulkes-Corbett.