{"id":1353,"date":"2010-12-11T13:48:51","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T17:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedockchurch.org\/blog\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2011-01-01T13:11:17","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T17:11:17","slug":"a-holy-war-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/2010\/a-holy-war-really\/","title":{"rendered":"A holy war, really?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Welcome to the latest in what is becoming a long-running series of photos of me staring in disbelief at a ridiculously overblown Belfast Telegraph headline.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedockchurch.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/pto-7-Version-2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1359\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/2010\/a-holy-war-really\/pto-7-version-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/pto-7-Version-2.jpg?fit=648%2C484&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"648,484\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 4&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1292088610&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.85&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;640&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0588235294118&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"&#8216;Pope&#8217;s Holy War&#8217;!\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/pto-7-Version-2.jpg?fit=300%2C224&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/pto-7-Version-2.jpg?fit=648%2C484&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1359\" title=\"'Pope's Holy War'!\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedockchurch.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/pto-7-Version-2-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/pto-7-Version-2.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/pto-7-Version-2.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/pto-7-Version-2.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>&#8216;Pope&#8217;s Holy War&#8217;! \u00a0Is the Shared Medley in ruins? \u00a0Have relations with the Catholic church broken down and descended into bloodshed? \u00a0Well, no; when you turn to page 16 and read the article, you find out that it&#8217;s about one of the Wikileaks cables which have been emerging over recent weeks. \u00a0This one contains the opinion of the British Ambassador to the Vatican from November 2009. \u00a0Back then, he warned that the Pope&#8217;s invitation to disaffected Anglican clergy to join the Catholic church would lead to anti-Catholic sentiment in the UK, and possibly even attacks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Did the dire portents of his prediction come true? \u00a0Err&#8230;no. \u00a0So the news is, over a year ago, a bloke warned about something that then didn&#8217;t actually happen. \u00a0Nevertheless, POPE&#8217;S HOLY WAR it is!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I don&#8217;t usually get on my soap-box about these things, but this isn&#8217;t the first time that I&#8217;ve been moved to write a blog about a sensationalist Belfast Telegraph headline that a) has the potential to do some damage, and b) doesn&#8217;t actually relate to the facts of the full article (see also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedockchurch.org\/blog\/?p=504\">here<\/a>). \u00a0Does this get on anyone else&#8217;s nerves?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the latest in what is becoming a long-running series of photos of me staring in disbelief at a ridiculously overblown Belfast Telegraph headline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chris-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A holy war, really? 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