Joanna Bogle Explained

Joanna Margaret Bogle, DSG (; born September 1952) is a British Roman Catholic writer and broadcaster based in London.[1] She has a degree in theology.[2]

Biography

Bogle worked for the Richmond Herald and later the Surrey Comet newspapers after leaving school.[3] She has written for the Catholic Times and the Catholic Herald.[4] In 1996, Bogle was described by Catholic writer Peter Stanford as "a forceful, eloquent and youthful firebrand who has made it her business, with some success, to act as a counter-balance to Cristina Odone on the chat-show and soundbite circuit."[5]

Bogle is a founder member of the Association for Catholic Women in England and contributes to The National Catholic Register.[6] She is married to James Bogle, a barrister and convert to Catholicism.[7]

In 2013, she became a Dame of the Pontifical Equestrian Order of St. Gregory the Great, a Papal merit award whose recipients are styled "DSG". The award is not connected to Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom. Bogle does not have a television [8] but contributes to EWTN Global Catholic Network, a Catholic television and radio network "dedicated to the advancement of truth as defined by the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, [...] to serve the orthodox belief and teaching of the Church as proclaimed by the supreme Pontiff and his predecessors."

Her biography of 19th-century humanitarian Caroline Chisholm, The Emigrant's Friend, was published in 1993. A short biography, "Courage and Conviction" (2013) concerns Mother Riccarda Beauchamp Hambrough and Sister Katherine Flanagan, two British Bridgettine nuns who helped to hide 50 Jewish refugees in Rome during the Second World War.[9] [10]

Opinions

A conservative who believes the Catholic Church should advocate fundamental truths rather than liberal attitudes,[11] Bogle has opposed the ordination of women priests.[12] In 1999, Bogle opposed the recommendation of the Broadcasting Standards Commission to use BCE and CE in place of BC and AD.[13] She was a member of the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association, and in 1987 was described as "Mary Whitehouse's second-in-command" by the London Daily News.[14]

In 1998, she criticised the decision of the Church to honour Rupert Murdoch with a knighthood: "It sends out the message that you can make a living out of something – soft pornography – that is regarded by the Church as sinful, and yet you can be awarded for it. The Knighthood of St. Gregory is supposed to be about honour and chivalry and splendour. To give it to Murdoch is ridiculous and wrong."[15]

She believes Catholics, and Christians generally, are under sustained assault in the UK and should assert themselves.[16] In March 2009, Bogle participated in a debate on Channel 4 News with Dr Rachel Baggaley, head of Christian Action's HIV programme, and presenter Jon Snow, on the Church's policy towards AIDS in Africa. Snow described it as the fiercest debate in which he ever participated.[3]

Publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. Joanna Bogle Blogspot "Auntie Joanna writes", joannabogle.blogspot.co.uk; accessed 19 January 2018.
  2. Catholic History Walks "About Joanna Bogle", catholichistorywalks.com; accessed 17 October 2019.
  3. Sharyn McCowen "Author ‘lost my cool’ in AIDS debate on TV – A Conversation with Joanna Bogle", The Catholic Weekly (Australia), 16 August 2009
  4. Joanna Bogle "Why thanking our priests has become a Holy Week tradition" Catholic Herald, 22 March 2016
  5. Peter Stanford "Unholy battle for faithful readers", The Independent, 20 February 1996
  6. Joanna Bogle "London Bridge is Standing Strong", The National Catholic Register, 5 June 2017
  7. Vice Chairman – James Bogle http://catholicunion.org.uk/2013/11/james-bogle-vice-chairman/The Catholic Union of Great Britain
  8. https://catholicjournalistinlondon.wordpress.com/2016/02/22/the-bbc-and-its-staff/ "The BBC and its staff"
  9. News: Taylor. Jerome. British nuns who saved wartime Jews on path to sainthood. https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220609/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-nuns-who-saved-wartime-jews-on-path-to-sainthood-1988875.html . 9 June 2022 . subscription . live. The Independent. 2 June 2010. 29 June 2017.
  10. News: Oddie. William. The lie of 'Hitler's Pope' collapses, little by little: now, an important new book shows how Pius XII's protection of the Jews worked on the ground. Catholic Herald. 9 August 2013. 29 June 2017.
  11. Joanna Bogle "The Catholic church is not a democracy", Opendemocracy, 17 April 2005
  12. Joanna Bogle "Women Priests — No Chance", Catholic Education Resource Center, 1997 article
  13. Joanna Bogle and Rabbi Charles Middleburgh "Is it millennium madness to drop AD and BC?" The Guardian, 8 May 1999
  14. London Daily News, 3 April 1987, p.7
  15. Steve Boggan "Catholic anger at Murdoch's papal knighthood", The Independent, 17 February 1998
  16. Joanna Bogle. "Anti-Catholic Nastiness in England", Catholicity website, 7 August 2007 (Reprinted from InsideCatholic.com)

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