They stood watch at the front door of the London Hospital.
The news channels both cable and local cut into regularly scheduled programming
in order to try and capture the singular moment the Royal family arrived at the
hospital and when the new born would pop his or her little head out of the
front door..
Endless coverage and speculation over the new baby in
tabloids and news articles guessed what the name would be if a girl or a boy
and it’s royal ranking, in line for the thrown.
A joyous event, celebrating life as it enters the world, yes
but really is all that moment to moment coverage necessary?
The other news item, thousands of youth in Brazil awaiting
the Holy Father to celebrate World Youth Day and their fearless acclamation of
their faith, the news coverage of the event, well not so minute-to-minute and
kind of sparse. The only real headline came when the car containing Pope
Frances turned down a wrong street into throngs of faithful. Then there’s the
bomb found at a location to be visited by the pope. That seemed the interest of
their story not the purpose of his visit.
What’s the beef with these two events? No real beef, just
some observations that came to my mind as these events unfolded
First, the birth of George Alexander Louis, of parents Prince
William and Kate Middleton seemed I
don’t know, kind of out of place in a world screaming abortion!, abortion!, and
ObamaCare. It seemed like a complete 180 degree’s out of the today’s fog, all
the news agencies hanging on every word of their camped out reporters and any
slight movement from the front door of the hospital, wow confusing.
A few of the cable stations pretending to not care but still
reporting on the event, breaking away with a gasp, “is the baby here?!”. All
the welcoming waves and cheers from well wishers outside the hospital and later
at Kensington Castle. The statistics show a 2.5% drop in abortions in England,
but that doesn’t tell the story that 185,000 unborn children died in Britain lastyear, in a nation with few limits on abortion and taxpayer financing of them
The fastest-growing
type of family in the UK are people who
are living together without being married, according to official figures. The
number of people who cohabit has doubled to 5.9 million since 1996, the Office for National
Statistics (ONS) figures state.
Despite the appearance of Price William placing Prince
George in his car seat and driving the Royal family and their new born, off
from the hospital to a life of ever after, the majority of family life in
London doesn’t reflect that in any way. The U.S. is not that far behind.
Many of my work colleagues in their mid to late thirties
just now are tying the knot. Those newlyweds with a new born at home seem a
little frustrated at caring for the baby and maintain their careers. One of my
work mates confided in me that he has to give up the gym of all things to help
with the baby. Who knew he would have to sacrifice so much.
I told him that’s what parenting and marriage was about,
sacrifice. He had that puzzled look on his face and scampered off before I
could explain. I’ll have to make a note to myself to follow up on that
conversation with him.
So the excitement is short lived, and the news day has moved
on. A passing glimpse of family life not practiced and celebrated with any such
new coverage. Very sad.
The second news item was hardly covered at all, the
beginning of World Youth Day 2013 and the arrival of Pope France to Brazil. I
saw a brief clip on the local news channels only to mention that the safety of
the pope was in question after his motorcade turned down a wrong street and was
immediately surrounded by mobs of greeters. Also a note of a finding of a bomb
at a planned event location, and that was it.
The only coverage at all of course was on EWTN, and that’s a
shame because of the number of youths , thousands eager to celebrate their
faith is a message that the world really needs to see and hear.
The New Evangelization is in high gear in Brazil and the
muffled coverage is in full effect. Who wants to see a bunch (did I mention
THOUSANDS!) of teenagers and young adults eager and on fire with their faith of
Catholicism.
The Catholic Church, lamp on the bushel basket, the source
of all Truth, the bride of Christ, the visible church the only remedy of today’s
bile, is on display in Brazil and nowhere else.
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