[Oe List ...] What Matthew Fox is up to. You can help

[LAURELCG at aol.com]

Dear Friends,

I am writing to ask if you would assist me in a new  endeavor. First, to 
tell you:

I have just returned from Rome where they  launched my "Original Blessing" 
in Italian amidst considerable fanfare on the  anniversary of Giordano 
Bruno's burning at the stake (after all he too was a  Dominican) and right under 
the pope's nose who called it "dangerous and  deviant."

While there I also took the occasion to post my 95 theses at  the front of 
Cardinal Law's basilica in Rome with press and crowd present (and  Vatican 
police) for an hour event decrying his cover-up of a priest who abused  150 
boys and whom he passed from parish to parish. Law now appoints bishops  
world wide from his Vatican post.

We filmed the event and it will be on  You Tube soon. My book on the Pope 
and the future of the church comes out May 3.  Click here for a report on my 
Rome trip, _(www.matthewfox.org/index.php/2011/04/posting-95-theses/)_ 
(http://www.matthewfox.org/index.php/2011/04/posting-95-theses/)   and click here 
for an announcement on the new book. _(www.matthewfox.org)_ 
(http://www.matthewfox.org/) 

I am wondering  if you might be at all interested and able to assist with 
our viral campaign as  described below. Some of you may have already agreed 
to participate, and you  will be receiving text, FB, Twitter and Constant 
Contact code within a week.  
Thank you for your time and interest and support,

Matthew  Fox


My book on the present pope and the need to push the restart  button on 
Christianity, called The Pope's War: How Ratzinger's 30 Year  Crusade Imperiled 
the Church and What Can Be Saved, comes out officially on  May 3. Given the 
nature of the issues involved (I use the “S” word and talk  about the 
"schism" of the past two papacies that have in essence rejected the  Second 
Vatican Council's reforms), we feel that a viral campaign could  help boost 
interest and sales of the book in a big way. Three quarters of the  book is 
about the pope, his enemies (liberation theology, etc.) and his allies  
(including opus dei, etc) but the last part is about “What to save from the  burning 
building” and “what a post-Vatican Catholicism” would look like, etc.  
Bruce Chilton has written a powerful Forward for the book, I am touched to  say.

I am writing this letter to ask your participation in our viral  campaign 
on May 3rd, 2011.We are told that such viral campaigns really help  to sell 
books and bring them to the attention of the New York Times and others.  We 
will provide you with HTML or text copy, book image, Facebook and Twitter  
posts for use in either stand alone E- blasts, Newsletters or Social Media and 
 ask you to commit to sending your blast out on Tuesday, May 3.

If you  want to assist me in this way to get the word out, you could send a 
YES to my  assistant, Dennis Edwards, @ _33dennis at sbcglobal.net_ 
(mailto:33dennis at sbcglobal.net)  and who will be  handling the logistics.

Thank you so much! If they can do it in Cairo and  Madison, why not in 
Vatican City?

In solidarity,

Matthew  Fox
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