Why we have Closed.

(Please note: Catholics With Attitude has recommenced trading. The post was published a few days after we temporarily ceas

As many of you know, Catholics With Attitude has been around for just under 6 years. During that time, we have produced a wide range of T-shirts with various Catholic Designs. “Retro”, “Quirky”, “Funny”, “Devout”, “Direct”, “Pious”, “Provocative”, “Inspirational” – these are just some of the words used to describe what we have made and what people have bought. Being a Universal Church, we have used different languages to reflect our Faith, such as Latin, Greek, French, Spanish, German, Portugese, Italian, to name but seven. However, one design has caused us a huge problem.

On the 22nd of May, Lawyers acting for a large clothing company and it’s subsidiaries contacted us to say that we were passing their work off as our own and that we had knowingly infringed their copyright and sold these products full in the knowledge that people would recognise them as being that company’s work. They went on to say that they have confidential agreements in place with other manufacturers controlling the use of  retro style get-ups using Swoosh images and of Japanese Characters along with these same images. In short, our Japanese Catholic design was damaging to them.

This came as a shock to us, as we, at no time, copied anybody’s work. As much as we created vintage style Americana designs with Japanese writing, we also did the same for Scotland, England, Ireland, Wales, Brazil, France, USA, Vatican / Rome, Spain, and, Canada. This is also true for various Saints, Feasts, Occasions, Popes, Holy Places and other themes that are special to Catholic Beliefs.

CWA / Ebowear always act in good faith, and in our dealings with this Company’s Lawyers, we were happy to obl