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Proceeding with caution...
Dear Friends,
It was good to see that CathNews this morning finally caught up with the story we broke on Monday regarding the matters being raised by the Eastern rite bishops. I have had some feedback indirectly from the four Eastern Bishops that while they were appreciative of the matters being raised in the media they felt my introduction was perhaps a tad too direct. The reality is gentlemen, that to enable any story to gain media attention it does require some "bite". I did endeavour to provide a balancing perspective and fuller explanation of what you were seeking to draw attention to in a further editorial comment in our forum (which you can read HERE).
I can disclose there is another ripper story building in the wings at the moment which projects this question of accountability in sectors of the "professional church" (i.e. Catholic education, Catholic health care, etc) into the limelight. In wider society we might complain about the "greedy bankers" who have been ripping society off. What should we do when we come across individuals "rorting" this magnificent structure that Catholics built painstakingly over a couple of centuries for the education of our children? Stand by. It's probably about a week or two away until it bursts onto the media stage.
And talking about "bursting onto the media stage" did you watch Peter Kennedy on the ABC's national television program Q&A last night? There is a good discussion about that running in our forum today — and the lengthy interviews he and Archbishop Bathersby gave to ABC radio a few days ago. (See the discussion HERE.)
For our lead commentary today we finally catch up with the commentary from Tom McMahon I've had to hold over for a couple of days because of the Eastern Catholics story we broke on Monday. As Tom McMahon suggested last week  — and I think today's commentary reflects that. Our Tom is a brave man though — brave enough to ask some of the questions that are on everybody's lips but which are largely unvoiced because of various kinds of social or religious taboos. Today he's endeavouring to not so much answer questions but raise questions in the mind of the reader. What were the attitudes to marriage — and to women — six thousand years ago, long before anyone had heard the name Jesus Christ? What do we know of what women themselves thought in those earlier epochs of history?
<Read Tom's Commentary>
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