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“Hope You Enjoy The Holidays” August 17, 2012

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From the latest issue of Alive an uplifting tale for the ‘Kids’ thats been doing the rounds this morning.

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1. FergusD - August 17, 2012

Is this for real? If so it is sick!

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irishelectionliterature - August 17, 2012

Yes its for real. Its on page 15 of Alives July August issue
http://www.alive.ie/uploads/6/5/1/1/6511516/alive_july_aug_2012.pdf

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2. eamonncork - August 17, 2012

There was a time when most of the country knew this uplifting story, hence the number of women of my mother’s generation saddled with the name Goretti. The wife of Joe McDonnell the hunger striker being one of them.
The canonisation apparently took place because at the time, 1950, forty eight years after the murder, the Vatican was worried about the rising tide of sexual immorality in Italy and thought its young women needed a poster child for chastity.
Then of course there’s the irony of Maria Goretti’s story being used as propaganda by an organisation which painstakingly covered up the ‘bold things’ done to children by so many of its priests. Though I’m sure the folk at Alive would regard criticism of those cover-ups as mere Atheistic propaganda. The ‘love of Jesus’ didn’t do you much good when Sean Fortune and Brendan Smyth were on the prowl unfortunately.

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3. RosencrantzisDead - August 17, 2012

Is it just me or does the Goretti story imply that all successful rapes occur because victims ‘submit’ to their assailant? Very, very, creepy stuff.

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EamonnCork - August 17, 2012

I think you may well be right and that perhaps this may accoiunt to some extent for the lack of sympathy evinced by those on the extreme Catholic right for the victims of clerical child abuse

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4. Mark P - August 17, 2012

Bloody hell.

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5. WorldbyStorm - August 17, 2012

I was going to send you a text IELB pretty much echoing what Fergus D and Mark P said.

Dismal.

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WorldbyStorm - August 17, 2012

BTW, the tone of it is adds to the creepiness that RosencrantzisDead notes.

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irishelectionliterature - August 17, 2012

Yes its just woeful.

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6. smiffy - August 17, 2012

Hiya kids.

Death or rape: your choice.

Enjoy the holidays!

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7. Juggernaut - August 17, 2012

I actually decided this was a con and looked up the magazine (I had never heard of it before) and indeed there it was on the back page. WTF!? The good news is that the boast of a ciculation of 24,000.

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RosencrantzisDead - August 17, 2012

That is not good news. By comparison, Village magazine has a readership of approximately 35,000 and it is aimed at a much wider audience.

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irishelectionliterature - August 17, 2012

Its given out free. I have it delivered regularly to me by by a neighbour and then its thrown into the recycle bin very promptly

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EamonnCork - August 17, 2012

I doubt if anyone buys it. You occasionally see a stack of them dumped in church porches. The tone of malign lunacy is such it’s likely that even David Quinn finds it a bit much. Though perhaps we might give the Alive people the credit for being upfront about their convictions unlike the Iona Institute crowd who pursue the same agenda but are able to be a bit more soothing about it in the mainstream media.

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RosencrantzisDead - August 17, 2012

How do they fund the publication of it? Stipend from the Church? Donations?

irishelectionliterature - August 17, 2012

Its a registered charity (there was something here a while back about it). So donations probably and fees for Small ads etc.

RosencrantzisDead - August 17, 2012

Very interesting.

Mark P - August 17, 2012

There’s definitely no stipend from the church. The hierarchy is instinctively wary of lay ultras. Some Parish Priests would be sympathetic, but above that level this bunch, like Coir would be regarded as unreliable loose cannons.

Ed - August 17, 2012

There always used to be a pile of them left outside the library in UCD when I was there. We never missed an issue – there was a long-running lifestyle column called ‘Kathy’s Diary’ about a woman trying to make her pious way through today’s secular, sex-mad world where everyone is trying to persuade her to do ‘bold things’. In one edition ‘Kathy’ explained her fervent belief that no nice boy would want to end up with a woman who had been ‘passed around like a bag of chips’. My friend Tom changed the entry for his girlfriend’s mobile number so that it came up as ‘bag of chips’ (they’re happily married now, in defiance of ‘Alive!’).

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