Comments on: Nederlands Dagblad

By: Andrew Cusack

Andrew Cusack — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:37:45 +0000

The Christian Science Monitor is owned by the Church of Christ, Scientist, headquartered in Boston, MA and has been since its foundation.

By: Chris Huff

Chris Huff — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:30:19 +0000

Actually, I don’t believe the Christian Science Monitor is run by “Christian Scientists.”

By: Michiel Vi.

Michiel Vi. — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:39:07 +0000

Well, you must know that the Nederlands Dagblad is actually a rather left-wing newspaper. Christian, indeed, but very similar in its political views to the “ChristenUnie”, an originally orthodox protestant political party that used to be fairly conservative but has moved tremendously to the left (open borders and on economics) in recent years and has been awarded for this behavior with a place in the government.

The real conservative Dutch Christian newspaper is the Reformatorisch Dagblad (www.refdag.nl) — this paper is more in tune with the SGP political party, a quite conservative party that traditionally holds about 2 out of 150 seats in the Dutch parliament (the ChristenUnie has 6).

Nederlands Dagblad sells about, Reformatorisch Dagblad double that number.

By: Friar Hugo, hermit

Friar Hugo, hermit — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 20:08:20 +0000

I’m sorry about this one, but, as I said, there’s much to be thankfull for in the Netherlands to. Out of the blue, our cathedral is full of young people all of a sudden, every sunday. We had one vocation maybe every five years, now we have converts every easter and a lot of seminarians. It’s at its darkest just before dawn…

By: Andrew Cusack

Andrew Cusack — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 02:58:18 +0000

Well, we always prefer to have any illusions we suffer smashed, so for that we must thank you, Friar Hugo.

By: Friar Hugo, hermit

Friar Hugo, hermit — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 22:13:42 +0000

It’s nice to hear something nice about the Netherlands for a change, but I’m afraid I’ll have to temper your enthousiasm a bit. The ‘Nederlands Dagblad’ is very outspoken in its anti-catholic sentiment, being the voice of the ultra-calvinistic ‘black-socks’ of the Dutch Bible-belt. The catholics have their weekly ‘Katholiek Nieuwsblad’ but have lost all their old Newspapers to the secularized mainstream. On the other hand: the great modernistic disease of the church started with us in the Netherlands, it appears to start its diminishing here to. The Church shows the first signs of recovery. Maybe the ‘Katholiek Nieuwsblad’ will become a daily newspaper after all…

By: Athos

Athos — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:04:57 +0000

As a middle aged convert, I'm finding that there are wheels among wheels, even among Catholics. The closest thing online that sounds vaguely similar to your requirements is New Advent. Others may beg to differ.

By: Liz Smith

Liz Smith — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:23:53 +0000

Well then hop to it, boy! I look forward to reading “America Daily” edited by our own dear Cusack.

By: MCH

MCH — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:48:56 +0000

The Dutch also now have a very lively conservative weekly, Opinio: http://www.opinio.nu/

By: Andrew Cusack

Andrew Cusack — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:36:17 +0000

I always found the Christian Science Monitor rather boring and uninspiring. Worse, it is an ugly and ungainly paper, and I find it difficult to bring myself to read a paper that is not well-designed.

But, while owned and operated under the auspices of the Christian Science Church, I believe most of its staff have nothing to do with the sect.