Catholic Voices: Putting the Case for the Church in the Era of 24-Hour News

“Perhaps the rarest thing in the Church, as in life, is a truly good idea. Catholic Voices is just such a rarity – an imaginative and original answer to the Church’s persistent communications woes.” John Allen, National Catholic Reporter.

Catholic Voices is a new sort of apologetics. It gives Catholics a fresh way of explaining the Church’s teaching on contentious issues – humanly, compellingly, and succintly.

It is the fruit of group of speakers and experts brought together by a single idea: to make sure that Catholics and the Church were represented properly in the media when Pope Benedict came to visit the UK in September 2010.

Their original and thoughtful approach helped make that visit a triumph.

Catholic Voices is not just for those preparing for a media interview but for any Catholics who find themselves tongue-tied when trying to talk about the most important thing in their life – whether at dinner, or in the pun, or around the office water-cooler.

Whether read in groups or alone, studied in schools or parishes, Catholic Voices offers the same thorough briefings on hot topics and the same “top tips” for effective communication which helped make the project such a success.

CONTENTS:

Foreword by Christopher Jamison
Acknowledgements
Introduction

Part I
1. The Church and politics
2. Homosexuality and contraception
3. Equality and religious freedom
4. Euthanasia and assisted suicide
5. Clerical sex abuse
6. Catholic schools
7. Defending the unborn
8. Catholics and AIDS
9. Anglicans, the priesthood and the Ordinariate

Part II
10. The 10 Catholic Voices principles of good communication
11. The Catholic Voices experience

The Catholic Voices prayer