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Article: The bishop and the strike.(Bishop Fred Henry; Calgary Herald strike)
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- Catholic Insight
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- January 1, 2000
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When Calgary's Catholic bishop refused to speak to the Calgary Herald after the paper's journalists went on strike, I assumed he just misunderstood the situation.
Even when Bishop Fred Henry's stance aligned him with icons of Canada's anti-faith, anti-Catholic, pro-abortion establishment such as Margaret Atwood and June Callwood, I believed he was simply erring on the diplomatic side of moral neutrality.
Wrong. On both counts.
"I admit that 'not talking' is not a neutral stance, it wasn't intended to be-it's a low level protest," Bishop Henry wrote to Herald journalist Joe Woodard a month after the strike began.
Bishop Henry said he ...