As the “Francis effect” continues to ripple around the world, the group founded to supply informed speakers to radio and television to defend Catholic doctrine has made a shift in its approach.Catholic Voices (CV), established in 2010 to coincide with the UK visit of Pope Benedict XVI, has said its mission is expanding outside the media.“Francis has been a game-changer,” Austen Ivereigh, CV’s coordinator and co-founder, told us. “We no longer get called to justify this or that ‘outrageous’ church teaching, but more often to comment on what the Pope has done or said … the change is partly because there is a new story: the Pope himself. But it’s also because of the Pope’s success in detoxifying church teaching.”Dr Iver
09 January 2014, The Tablet
Changing voices
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