Bishop Warns Against Creeping Anti-Christianism
The Catholic Bishop of Leeds has warned against creeping anti-Christianism after revealing he was "appalled" by anti-Christian TV programmes over Christmas.
by Maria Mackay
Thursday, January 4, 2007

The Catholic Bishop of Leeds has warned against creeping anti-Christianism after revealing he was "appalled" by anti-Christian TV programmes over Christmas.

Bishop Arthur Roche warned Catholics not to become complacent to the anti-Christianism infecting the nation’s everyday life, reports Catholic newspaper The Universe.

In his New Year pastoral letter, the bishop said that he had been “appalled” at the abuse of Jesus’ name on television over Christmas.

“It was as if my television set had been infested with anti-Christian and deeply disrespectful and derogatory sentiments,” he said

Yet, as St Paul reminds us: God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. He added: “There is an ease and a carelessness today in which it is possible, without any resistance, to ridicule Jesus, his Church and his followers. the rest