Just a quick post to update some of the stories we’ve been following around the ecclesiastical traps - Irfan Yusuf, writing in New Matilda, contrasts the treatment doled out to Sheikh Al-Hilaly with the response (or lack thereof) from media and political figures to Bishop Anthony Fisher’s comments about survivors of sexual abuse. In an article on the same theme in Crikey, Yusuf links to a rather damning take at Media Watch on the News Limited coverage and commentary of accusations of church indifference to the victims of sexual abuse day raised during the World Youth Day event they were paid sponsors of.
Meanwhile, at the Lambeth Conference, conservative Anglican bishops are taking every opportunity to interrogate their fellow prelates about their ideological soundness on the loud condemnation of teh gay. Probably heretically, the Archbishop of York has suggested that there might just be more important issues for Christians than the ordination of gay bishops.
Thinking the same thing myself yesterday, mulling over the snubbing of the Fosters for the so called victims mass publicity stunt. Stomach crawls.
And Devine is back, lying her guts out as usual at SMH, concerning this stuff and people’s reactions to it.
Is there some sort of phrase-making competition among the right wing pundits and Miranda’s entry is:
???
The end of life as we know it:
“In a world of moral relativitism…pantheistic followers…turning our backs on the moral structure with which God has endowed humanity… the womb … a site of unnutterable violence… dignity of every life from conception to natural (natural?) death”.”
On and on; drone without end.
She wrote t’above AFTER the cruel and studied snubbing of the Fosters.
And what of the squander of quarter of a billion dollars that could have been used for the poor, as per Sermon on the Mount / Good Samaritan?
“site of innutterable violence”, eh?
‘Scuse me!
Kim!
It must be that St Miranda the Divine doesn’t write for one of those sex-fixated organs. Not for her mighty pulpit, such morsels as scantily-clad models http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24068354-2702,00.html, stories of sex scandals (Nazi party romps anyone?), fashion shoots, film reviews, gossip.
No, the OO is not the “Oh, Oh, Ohhhh Organ!” It’s more in the nature of a Diocesan News Bulletin, replete with prayers, homilies, and recipes for homely porridge and chaste sandwiches. Please find and deliver to me a break.
“turning our backs on the moral structure with which God has endowed humanity”
Perhaps Miranda might want to give us a recap on how this has played out in the last 4000 years so we can know how we have degenerated.