{"id":514,"date":"2010-10-08T08:33:18","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T06:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/?p=514"},"modified":"2010-10-08T08:33:18","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T06:33:18","slug":"ny-artikkel-om-pavens-besok-i-storbritannia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/2010\/10\/ny-artikkel-om-pavens-besok-i-storbritannia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ny artikkel om pavens bes\u00f8k i Storbritannia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kritikken pave Bendikt fikk f\u00f8r han kom til Storbritannia var mye kraftigere enn de fleste av oss i Norge husker eller la merke til. Derfor var ogs\u00e5 bes\u00f8kets suksess viktigere enn vi vanligvis tenker over. I First Things leste jeg<\/a> i dag en artikkelen om hva som skjedde under bes\u00f8ket, om hvordan ogs\u00e5 BBC’s journalister noks\u00e5 raskt snudde da de virkelig m\u00f8tte paven:<\/p>\n

Three weeks have passed since the Pope\u2019s visit to Great Britain, and memories of it still fill my mind, because it was a triumph few had expected. Of all the remarkable things I saw, while blogging about it for First Things, nothing more surprised me than this: on September 18th, as his Popemobile rolled toward Hyde Park\u2014with Benedict waiving to his supporters packed along the streets\u2014a BBC reporter, watching in amazement, suddenly burst out: \u201cThe 83-year-old pontiff has confounded his critics!\u201d<\/p>\n

To appreciate the significance of that comment, one has to understand the BBC. For years, it has been among Benedict’s most cynical media foes, questioning every aspect of his pontificate. The coverage has been so bad that Scotland\u2019s Cardinal Keith O\u2019Brien felt it necessary to speak out (Catholic bishops in the U.K. tend to keep their heads down), denouncing the network\u2019s \u201cconsistent anti-Christian institutional bias,\u201d particularly against the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n

Yet there was that BBC reporter, undergoing an awakening, if only for an instant.<\/p>\n

Even more astonishing was the reaction of another commentator, Joe Wilson, of BBC Radio Lancashire: \u201cSomehow as the four days progressed, bit by bit, the Pope\u2019s visit transformed from the worry of embarrassment that reaction would be tepid, to the glow of the eventual warmth given off by the obvious love so many felt for him.\u201d …<\/p>\n

…. If there is one man in Britain who deserves credit for bringing all this to fruition, it is Chris Patten, the official appointed by the government to help oversee the papal visit. Lord Patten is a rather unlikely hero. A \u201cprogressive\u201d Catholic, his faith has often been described as tepid and fashionable, very much like that of Tony Blair\u2019s. In the days leading up to the papal visit, Patten was widely mocked, by both Left and Right, as a hapless figurehead, who was obviously overseeing an impending disaster.<\/p>\n

But it was Patten, for all his imperfections, who never lost faith in Benedict, and in his ability to inspire a secular audience. In a combative interview with the BBC, Patten described Benedict as \u201cthe greatest intellectual to be pope since Innocent III,\u201d a \u201cworld class theologian,\u201d who had a \u201creally important message about the Christian roots of civilization in this country, and in Europe, and the way in which we can become more self-confident in asserting those Christian traditions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nobody can argue, said Patten, \u201cthat Pope Benedict doesn\u2019t have very thoughtful and intelligent ideas to offer.\u201d Most of those who know Benedict, \u201cregard him as a very sympathetic figure.\u201d He noted that his previous visits \u201chave all confounded the critics who existed before, because of the way he\u2019s dealt with the public, not just the Catholics, but others as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked if he was worried about protests, he said, \u201cNo, not at all,\u201d and predicted the visit would be a \u201chuge success.\u201d He had every right to celebrate, therefore, when his prediction proved true. … <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kritikken pave Bendikt fikk f\u00f8r han kom til Storbritannia var mye kraftigere enn de fleste av oss i Norge husker eller la merke til. Derfor var ogs\u00e5 bes\u00f8kets suksess viktigere enn vi vanligvis tenker over. I First Things leste jeg i dag en artikkelen om hva som skjedde under bes\u00f8ket, om hvordan ogs\u00e5 BBC’s journalister […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-generelt","category-paven"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}