Rupert Murdoch - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 19 Jul 2012 03:00:46 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Rupert Murdoch - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Rupert Murdoch's religious odyssey includes papal knighthood https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/07/20/rupert-murdoch-religious-odyssey-includes-papal-knighthood/ Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:30:59 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=30011 Last week Rupert Murdoch launched a bitter crusade against the Church of Scientology. Initially this was interpreted as being a long-held grudge against the cult's alleged attempt to seduce his son, Lachlan, with overtures from its highest-profile member, Tom Cruise. However, Murdoch's comments on religion drew attention to his long personal history of religious affiliations, Read more

Rupert Murdoch's religious odyssey includes papal knighthood... Read more]]> Last week Rupert Murdoch launched a bitter crusade against the Church of Scientology. Initially this was interpreted as being a long-held grudge against the cult's alleged attempt to seduce his son, Lachlan, with overtures from its highest-profile member, Tom Cruise.

However, Murdoch's comments on religion drew attention to his long personal history of religious affiliations, the Catholic Herald reports.

In January 1998, Murdoch, a non-Catholic, but a generous benefactor to the Catholic Church, was made a papal knight of the Pontifical Order of St Gregory the Great. Beside him in the ceremony in Los Angeles was his second wife, Anna, a Catholic.

Many Catholics were horrified that a purveyor of sleaze, tabloid sex, scandal and nudity was blessed with papal recognition.

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