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To: epicure who wrote (27449)2/1/2004 11:26:45 PM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793673
 
everyone is usually pretty magnanimous about their activities.

The creative Elite in this country are violently secular. They love to taunt the Catholics and Evangelicals with art and theatre that they know will shock. But they are mum toward the Muslims. Multiculturalism.



To: epicure who wrote (27449)2/2/2004 12:32:52 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 793673
 
and they were very magnanimously handled, imo, considering what utter claptrap the subject was

Not by the BBC, to my recollection. The self-distancing and bemused regard of the strange ways of these rubes has always been evident in the Beeb's reportage of such events, imo.

Certainly no BBC reporter ever reported as fact that it WAS a manifestation of the Virgin Mary.