Public Opinion and the Catholic Church

摘要

Recent events have proven the need for a book that deals with public opinion and the Catholic Church (as well, perhaps, as for the other churches and religious faiths). In the UK there has been particularly bad press for the Roman Catholic church, perhaps because of the history of antipathy to the Church due to the split at the Reformation and the continuation of the Church of England as the State Church. While public opinion is, to some extent, malleable, there is some truth in Russell Shaw's comment on page 5 of the introduction. Asked to define what good public relations are, he answers: "Doing the right thing and telling people about it."