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Gerald Warner Axed

Scotland’s Voice of Reason Silenced

I WAS MUCH disheartened when I was told that Gerald Warner’s weekly column in Scotland on Sunday has been axed. Gerald’s writing is a refreshing Caledonian tonic in contrast to the usual second-rate rants from second-rate minds the exemplifies most newspaper columns today. Gerald Warner refuses to allow the heresiarchs of our age to lay waste to our civilization unchallenged. He is (err… was) the only substantial reason for paying for a copy of Scotland on Sunday. Of course, S-o-S is not available here in New York, so every Saturday night I would wait until after midnight GMT (7:00pm New York time) to read Gerald’s column online. Often enough, I would dutifully tell all the folks on the sidewalk after Mass on Sunday that they had to read Gerald’s column this week. Sometimes I’d even print the damn thing out and read it aloud for the enjoyment of all. But alas! No more…

Some Gerald Warner highlights on this site:

• ‘The Mass of All Time will outlive the Sixties revolutionaries’: When you see a Church of Scotland congregation praying the rosary you may believe ecumenism is a two-way process.
• Martyrs of Spain, Pray for Us!
• The Knights of Malta Ball 2006
• Warner on the Gotha
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5 Comments so far
  1. 21 December 2007
    1:00 pm

    What a crying shame. I doubt, however, we have heard the last of Mr. Warner. Perhaps now he will write for the Sunday Telegraph from Scotland, or even start up his own blog. Please let us know when you re-locate him.

    By the way, we must be reading his column at about the same time, for I have often read his column the night before as well, given the same time change difference.
  2. 21 December 2007
    3:41 pm

    The “New Scotland” of Salmond and Co. has no room for a proud Legitimist and Jacobite; nor indeed, for a traditional Catholic. Newspapers used once to oppose the overweening in Church and State; now they test the wind and kowtow.
    Will the English papers cease their opportunity? Don;t count on it, both Telegraph and Spectator are firmly in the hands of the neo-cons. Thus they are both dull and pompous, characteristics which Gerald Warner never exhibits.

    — L Gaylord Clark
  3. 21 December 2007
    3:45 pm

    Oops;;;”seize” of course. I suppose I was thinking of Gerald’s deplorable cessation.

    — LGC
  4. 30 December 2007
    8:24 am

    An absolute bloody disgrace, symptomatic of the decline of the Scotsman. I think I’ll probably switch to the Herald for coverage from the northern reaches of the realm. Scotland really is becoming a rather disturbingly Stalinist-like land of dull orthodoxy. It’s little wonder the place is going to the dogs.

    I will be following developments, hopefully he’ll be picked up elsewhere.

    — David
  5. 6 February 2008
    8:42 am

    I agree that it is a disgrace that Gerald is no longer writing for SOC – their loss. Happily, he has agreed to give a short talk at the Catholic Truth Scotland Conference next May (Saturday 17th May) (speakers, also, from England and the USA) so at £5/ $10 the tickets are a snip! Visit http://www.catholictruthscotland.comfor more information. Plan your holiday/vacation around that time and meet Gerald in person! Go on. You know it makes sense!
    Patricia, Editor, Catholic Truth
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