Madam, - The publication called Alive! is always "anti" everything and everyone. As a priest I am sad to say that it is distributed here in the parish in which I live by a very small number of people who are devotees of this appalling paper.
It is selective in the extreme in what is published and the
published view will almost always (as far as I can ascertain) be
"against" the widely held views of the majority of Catholics. -
Yours, etc,
Fr GERARD GALVIN,
O'Rahilly Street,
Clonakilty,
Co Cork.
Madam, - Like Terry McInerney (Letters, March 25th) I too was rather baffled when I leafed through a recent edition of Alive!, a Catholic monthly free-sheet that runs to 16 pages.
Some of the more eye-catching headlines in November's publication were "fewer priests will mean fewer masses", "stand up to liberal tyranny" and "Jews should not tell Catholics how to pray".
However, the free-sheet's main ire was reserved for godless harlots who use birth control: "The pill is not a medication, it is a poison. How could any responsible doctor prescribe this? Spiritually, a woman using the pill is acting against God's plan for marriage. She risks the early abortion of a baby. . .which serves to harden her heart against God," railed one anonymous missive.
The short paper contained an impressive three separate articles decrying the contraceptive pill for causing abortion, a variety of cancers and osteoporosis.
Thankfully, the seemingly haphazard distribution of the paper
means that a copy has not been randomly stuffed through my
letterbox since November last, but I remain curious as to who is
responsible for littering homes with this fact-free dross. - Yours,
etc,
COLETTE BROWNE,
Redmond Road ,
Wexford