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Joanna Margaret Bogle,
DSG (néeNash; 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]
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][dead link]
A Yearbook of Seasons and Celebrations (Paperback – 1 October 2007)
St John Mary Vianney, the Cure of Ars: A Parish Priest for All the World (Paperback – 1 September 2009)
English Catholic Heroines (Paperback – 15 October 2009)
A Nun with a Difference: The Life and Letters of Sister Mary Alban FC (Paperback – November 2009)
Lent and Easter: Catholic Customs and Traditions (Paperback – 11 January 2010)
Advent and Christmas: Catholic Customs and Traditions (Paperback – 24 September 2010)
Courage and Conviction. Pius XII, the Bridgettine Nuns, and the Rescue of Jews. Mother Riccarda Hambrough and Mother Katherine Flanagan (Paperback, Gracewing, 27 June 2013)
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