Letters

Christians the most vilified group (letter)

Arnold Jago

Contents - Jul 2004 - Buy a copy now Editorial: Separation of Church and State? - Michael Gilchrist Liturgy: New improved English Mass translation nears completion - Michael Gilchhrist Feminist 'rituals': no substitute for prayer - Joanna Bogle News: The Church Around the World Pastoral Letter: The secular challenges to our faith: how to respond - Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett Eucharistic Adoration: heart of evangelisation - Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM Croagh Patrick, Ireland's Holy Mountain: 'Sure, it's a bit of a hill' - Paul Russell Letters: Synod (letter) - Lance Eccles Letters: Courageous lead (letter) - Tom King Letters: Ineffective system (letter) - John Mulholland Letters: Catholic schools (letter) - George Simpson Letters: Dating the Gospels (letter) - Fr G.H. Duggan SM Letters: Informative talk (letter) - Frank Bourke Letters: Gay lobby (letter) - Alan A. Hoysted Letters: Abusive letters - Maureen Federico Letters: Christian models (letter) - Brett Powell Letters: Christians the most vilified group (letter) - Arnold Jago Letters: Disappointment (letter) - Cathy Cleary Letters: The Passion of the Christ (letter) - June Forester Letters: Parish concerns (letter) - Peter Gilet Letters: No kneelers (letter) Letters: The power of one (letter) - Brian Harris Letters: Sacred Heart (letter) - V. Mulligan Letters: CD response (letter) - Melanie and Christopher Duluk Books: Flee To the Fields - The Founding Papers of the Catholic Land Movement - Peter Chojnowski (reviewer) Books: An Essay on the Restoration of Property, by Hilaire Belloc - John Ballantyne (reviewer) Books: Ethics and the National Economy, by Heinrich Pesch - John Williamson (reviewer) Redemptionis Sacramentum (Sacrament of Redemption) abridged version - Fr M. Durham Books: More new titles for 2004 from AD Books Reflection: No time to pray? Try contemplation - Fr Leo J. Trese

A Christian believer has started legal action against Channel Seven because of the name "Jesus Christ" being used as a swear word in a crime program. He has been complaining about such things for the past five years and been fobbed off.

Last year, he took Channel Seven to the Equal Opportunity Commission, but his case was dismissed. Now he is going to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT).

There will be a "mediation" meeting on May 3 - then a hearing at Shepparton Court on August. Channel Seven will have lawyers. Mr van der Linden will represent himself. He says, "Christian believers are the most vilified group in this nation".

Everyone believing that people of goodwill should be protected from their beliefs being publicly ridiculed will wish him well.

Meanwhile, every time a holy name is blasphemed on TV, turn your set off and tell the TV channel what you have done and why. If we don't make an effort, things will get worse.

ARNOLD JAGO (DR)
Mildura, Vic

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 17 No 6 (July 2004), p. 14