So Bishop Drennan has
gone ‘out to the peripheries’, joining 500 protestors in a city square. So far,
so good.
But our bishops’ first task is to
preach the Gospel, to ‘bring out the great value ... of a human being, his
physical life’ (Vatican II). The protest God awaits is surely not one against a perceived
‘assault on our rights as citizens’ but the actual, prolonged assault on the
right to life itself, its dreadful toll of nearly 500,000 unborn citizens killed
by abortion, on the rights of their mothers to proper informed consent, of
parents to be informed of teenage daughters’
pregnancies.
It seems unlikely that Bishop Drennan
could muster 500 of his flock in
the cathedral to pray for the rights of the unborn. This dismal reality reflects
the priority accorded doctrine, prayer and sin in our dioceses, a
desacralization which has earned a new title for New Zealand - the ‘Holland of
Oceania’.
It’s not soap boxes
and speeches the unborn cry out for, it’s prayer and fasting; it’s not the TPPA
we should protest about. There can be no justice as long as we tolerate, and by
our silence condone, this latter-day slaughter of the
innocents.
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