I notice that when I email the Dompost, specially on the subject of Christianity, and my letter fails to appear, very often the dear old Dom will print another letter on the same topic, but one that is less challenging mentally and suitably anodyne.
After I'd sent the following missive, not one but two letters of that nature appeared. Letters that would upset no one.
So read on:
As an ‘off-putting, smug’ Catholic I say thank you Rosemary McLeod, for reminding us how God brings good out of evil.
After I'd sent the following missive, not one but two letters of that nature appeared. Letters that would upset no one.
So read on:
As an ‘off-putting, smug’ Catholic I say thank you Rosemary McLeod, for reminding us how God brings good out of evil.
Out of the Crusades, the revelation to Islam of a faith which declares that
‘each human life has value’. Out of the the Inquisition, a resolve to atone and
never repeat it. Out of Spain’s conquest of South America, breathtakingly
beautiful cathedrals where millions of tourists go for a glimpse of heaven.
And out of Isis, the realisation that while most of us Christians try but
fail, the Mother Teresas and Vincent de Pauls and Mother Mary Auberts illumine
our darkness with the light of Christ, living like he did, for the good of
others.
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