A national magazine booked an interview last Monday then cancelled a day later. They wanted to talk about World Catholic Youth Day but got bored just thinking about it.
TV show, Big Brother, is dumped. Catholics in the raw, via all the media, is in. The Beijing Games comes next. Mustn't leave too big a gap between main events. The natives might get restless.
Got a surprise this week. Phone call early morning - 'Is your church available this afternoon for 100 pilgrims? They want to 'do' Mass at the end of a hectic day of touring.'
OK, says I. They were two hours late. Four very big buses arrived at 6pm. A hundred, including three priests, piled into our 150 year old church.
These were the 'neo-cats', a recent development in Catholicism, well disciplined and behaved, heavily dependent on worship and morale sustaining singing and dancing. Click to read more.