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realised that it might seem self-serving and in some sense it was. There is a particular tradition of academic interrogation of Catholic ‘subjects’ that might unsettle a potential interviewee. Patricia for example wanted reassurance that the project would not be like the BBC4 documentary Catholics which had recently aired. There were some within the Catholic community who regarded the series as exploitative
For example, this indictment was at the heart of Diarmaid McCulloch’s three-part BBC documentary Sex and the Church . He concluded the series with this comment on the Catholic Church’s problems with both child abuse and women: ‘The problem is an institutional one peculiar to the Western Church and its Catholic successor: compulsory celibacy for the clergy, which
Canterbury. In Australia during the Second World War church leaders pressed broadcasters for midday calls to prayer; some also wanted Australian radio stations to follow the BBC example and institute a silent minute of prayer at 9.00 p.m. every evening, announced by the broadcast of the (recorded) chimes of Big Ben in London. Though Australia would not adopt the ‘Big Ben minute’ (New Zealand did), a midday silent minute of prayer was introduced from late 1941. Synchronised collective prayers in private homes showed how much had
Review , 21 ( 2012 ), 405 – 13 . 58 Tom O’Donoghue and Stephanie Burley , ‘ God’s Antipodean Teaching Force: An Historical Exposition on Catholic Teaching Religious in Australia ’, Teaching and Teacher Education , 24 ( 2008 ), 180 – 9 . 59 Cullingford, ‘“Our Nuns Are Not a Nation”’, p. 14. 60 ‘Pope admits clerical abuse of nuns including sexual slavery’ (6 February 2019). www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47134033 , accessed 12 March 2019. 61 Academic projects such as Louise Hide’s Wellcome Trust-funded ‘Hiding in Plain Sight: Cultures of
those on the margins, arguing the role of the parish sister was ‘obscure’. Parish sisters who ‘run the parish’ were criticised. One sister remarked: ‘We had one of the old nuns did everything all in the church; flowers, funerals, you name it. And we fought it and fought it that we should separate ourselves, we’re not the parish.’ The parish priest, she asserted, ‘shines in his own glory for everything, because everything is done for him’. 74 Even parish sisters were not beyond critique. Case study: Providence Row Cathy Come Home , Ken Loach’s BBC documentary of a