Dear BBC,

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Your piece about ex-Catholics who formally withdraw from church membership referred to the act as being "debaptised". It even spoke misleadingly of a "debaptismal certificate", as if the Church were agreeing to cancel someone's baptism. The Church has no such procedure. Baptism is a permanent fact, according to Catholic teaching, and cannot be undone, even if a person leaves the Church. I expect the reporter used this terminology in order to shock listeners and get attention, but it was quite wrong. Did your reporter realize that she was misrepresenting the facts? It only adds to the existing impression that BBC is hostile to the Catholic faith.

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To be fair, the BBC doesn't like "fundamentalist" Christians, Jews, Shiite Muslims who aren't in terrorist groups or militias, etc. Catholics are just one of their cast of horribles.

It only adds to the existing impression that BBC is hostile to the Catholic faith.

Or stupid. Or both.

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