Editors at the BBC were convinced that Pope John Paul II’s successor would be “the kind of agreeable liberal who would be at home in a north London Church of England parish”, its former head of television news has revealed.In his new book, Getting Out Alive, which promises to reveal the hidden underbelly at the BBC, Roger Mosey said the organisation’s “groupthink” led its editors to anticipate a pope who would be pro-women priests and pro-gay rights during th
25 June 2015, The Tablet
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